Best Practices

Evidence-Based Health Promotion in New York State

The Center for Excellence in Aging & Community Wellness is the Quality and Technical Assistance Center (QTAC) for evidence-based health promotion programs, such as the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP), across New York State.  CDSMP, a six-week workshop series developed by Stanford University's Patient Education Research Center, empowers older adults and their caregivers to take charge of chronic conditions such as arthritis, heart disease, etc. 

Research has shown that participants:

• are able to manage their symptoms better.
• communicate more easily with their doctors and loved ones.
• feel better.
• are less limited by their illness.
• spend less time at the doctor or in the hospital.

Visit NY's QTAC website and contact QTAC (QTAC@albany.edu or 877.496.2780) to find out how you can host a workshop at your eldercare provider site or connect clients with a workshop being held in their community.

Karen Choens, Project Manager at the FLTC, is certified to co-lead CDSMP in the Capital Region.  If your organization is a LANY partner and interested in hosting a workshop in Albany, Rensselaer or Schenectady County, please contact her at krevitt@leadingageny.org or call 518-867-8385.