Idaho

Commission on
Aging

Idaho Suicide Prevention Hotline 1-800-273-8255 (TALK)

Starting Monday, November 26th callers will be able to reach the hotline's local volunteer counselors. The hotline will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday - Thursdays. It will include a special line for veterans in crisis.

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Preventive Health and Health Promotion

Preventive Health Health Promotion provides information, services and activities for individuals over 60, their spouses and families that include:

• Health screenings and assessments

• Organized physical fitness activities

• Health promotion programs

• Medication management

• Home injury control services

Available Classes

Managing Chronic Disease

Living Well in Idaho

The program is a 6-week series of two hour sessions that address topics important for effective self-management of chronic conditions such as:

• Hypertension

• Diabetes

• Arthritis

• High blood pressure, heart disease

• Depression

*An evidence-based program developed by Stanford University.

Better Choices, Better Health®

This free on-line six-week workshop helps people with health issues including:

• Diabetes

• Arthritis

• High blood pressure, heart disease

• Chronic pain

• Anxiety

*An evidence-based program developed by Stanford University.

Better Choices, Better Health® - Diabetes

With support from sanofi, NCOA is making our online Better Choices, Better Health® – Diabetes workshop free on a first-come, first-served basis to any U.S. resident over 18 with diabetes. The six-week workshop has been proven to help people with diabetes learn to live healthier. This is a limited opportunity so sign up today.

Other Classes

Fit and Fall Proof™

Fit and Fall Proof is an exercise-based fall prevention program.  Attendance at classes two to three times per week enables older adults to:

• Maintain an independent, freely functioning life-style

• Achieve gains in flexibility, enabling older adults to reach and to bend

• Improve muscular strength

• Increase balance and posture

• Improve mobility, endurance, and walking gait

Over Sixty and Getting Fit

This low cost one-credit class, sponsored by the College of Southern Idaho provides the following benefits:

• Improves all aspects of cardiovascular functioning

• Impacts maintenance of independence in old age

• Helps preserve and restore flexibility

• Improves strength, balance and posture