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The healthy living objective is to improve the health and wellness of our community members. This is carried out through providing promotion and prevention programs which aim to specifically reduce the prevalence and incidences of chronic diseases.
Goals of healthy eating and exercise promote wellness. This initiative provides training opportunities for both community and staff to assist in preventing chronic illnesses.
The healthy living program cluster addresses chronic disease and to assist in improving the health and understanding of the relationship between the social determinants of health and healthy living/chronic condition of community members. Chronic disease represent as type 2 diabetes, heart and lung disease and cancer presenting more often than not in communities.
LKT Health offers an ongoing Diabetes Education Program to its member nations. Two health care professionals within LKT Health, one nurse and one dietitian provide services required.
The purpose of the Diabetes Education Program is to:
Nutrition for All Life Stages
The Arthritis Wellness Program is a collaboration between LKT and the Arthritis Research Centre (ARC), that is targeted to help people live well with arthritis and help family members provide support to loved ones living with arthritis.
The program is to facilitate an enriched, positive, and stimulating knowledge sharing environment for Ligwilda’xw people living with arthritis and their family members, and thus help journeys towards living well with arthritis.
The aftercare of the program allows for clients to meet with the Arthritis Coordinator if they require follow up and or after care planning.
The goals of this program are to:
Kinesiology is the study of the human body and movement. Kinesiology addresses Bio-mechanical, Neurological and physical challenges that may need to be improved on to continue daily activities of life. This may be achieved by interventions through movement or exercise and will work with healthy individuals for general fitness as well as those needing extra support.
Goals can be achieved through:
