Healthy Aging Programs

Today, you can expect to live for 30 years longer on average than people lived when Family Service began in 1911. This is great if you are pretty healthy. Healthy aging involves taking charge and taking care of yourself so that you can continue to enjoy the interactions and activities that give your life meaning and purpose.

Supporting healthy aging for people in our communities is one of our missions at Family Service.

We offer a number of complimentary classes that give you tools and resources to take charge of your life and live well. All of these are research and evidence-based courses. That means the courses were developed based on research to meet critical needs. They’ve proven to be successful at improving health for people surveyed in post-class studies across the nation.

Healthy Aging Classes and Programs

These are the Healthy Aging classes and programs that we currently offer—and at no charge to people age 60+ and/or their caregivers in Champaign County:

• Chronic Disease Self-Management Program class (CDSMP)

• Diabetes Self-Management Program class (DSMP)

• Matter of Balance class

• PEARLS program

• Stress-Busting class for Family Caregivers of People with Dementia

Please call the Senior Resource Center at 217-352-5100 to learn more about or to register for any of these classes.