Living Well with Hypertension and Hypercholesterolemia with Diabetes Mellitus

This course aims to enhance the skills and competencies of nurses, allied health professionals, healthcare workers in senior activity centres, and other health-related workers (e.g., health coaches) in chronic disease intervention of three prevalent health conditions – diabetes mellitus, hypertension and hypercholesterolemia. This will better equip them to coach and counsel patients, who would be mostly senior citizens, on the prevention and management of common chronic conditions through behavioural and lifestyle strategies. These strategies are part of the holistic management of chronic conditions and aim to upskill learners in having a better understanding of these diseases and empower them to coach patients to take greater ownership of their own health conditions.

This Living Well course covers various aspects of effectively managing these diseases, including assessment and monitoring, medication, and lifestyle strategies. Learners will then be able to coach patients how to proactively manage their own conditions using existing tools to plan their meals and exercise routines. This includes teaching learners how to instil in patients the practice of reading nutritional labels in common food and drinks, enabling their patients to make informed dietary choices, take better control of their health and improve the quality of their lives. The enhancement of these skills is also aligned with the recent healthcare and population initiatives of "Healthier SG”, which focuses on community and lifestyle-based healthcare delivery, and National Plans for Successful Ageing. The skills learnt will allow participants to acquire the necessary skills sets in managing community and healthcare treatments in specialist and community clinics, and in senior activity centres.

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