(Chelsea Update would like to thank Joyce Williams for the information in this story.)
While many are familiar with type 2 diabetes, fewer are aware of prediabetes, a serious health condition that affects over 2.6 million Michiganders (more than 1 in 3) and often leads to type 2 diabetes.
To help curb this epidemic, the Diabetes Prevention Center, a division of the National Kidney Foundation of Michigan, will offer the following Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) information session and workshop in Chelsea:
United Methodist Retirement Community (UMRC)
Crippen Building
805 West Middle St., Chelsea
Information session: Monday, Sept. 17, 2-3 p.m.
First class: Monday, Sept. 24, 2-3 p.m.
Medicare Parts B and C now cover DPP for its members who qualify. Additionally, if you have health insurance through Priority Health or U-M Premier Care/Blue Care Network, your insurance will be billed for the program. Some Priority Health plans have a copay. Additional payment options are available.
To find out if you qualify or for additional questions, please attend the information session, visit www.nkfm.org/DPP, or call the Diabetes Prevention Center at 800-482-1455.
The Diabetes Prevention Program is an evidence-based year-long program designed for people with prediabetes or at high risk for developing type 2 diabetes, with the goal that participants will adopt and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
DPP workshops are led by trained lifestyle coaches during weekly one-hour group sessions and eight monthly sessions that follow. Participants learn how to eat healthy, add physical activity to their routine, manage stress, stay motivated and solve problems that can get in the way of healthy changes. The program’s group setting provides a supportive environment with people who are facing similar challenges and trying to make the same changes.
Together, participants celebrate their successes and find ways to overcome obstacles.
To find out if you may have prediabetes or if you are at risk for it, you can:
find out about your risk by calling the Diabetes Prevention Center at 800-482-1455.
find out your risk via the risk test at www.nkfm.org/DPP. The risk test will also be provided at the information session.
ask your doctor to tell you if you are at risk for diabetes.
To register for DPP or for more information, visit www.nkfm.org/DPP or call 800-482-1455.
