Those who participated demonstrated a significant improvement in exercise, cognitive symptom management, communication with physicians, self-reported general health, health distress, fatigue, disability, and social/role activities limitations. They also spent fewer days in the hospital and tended toward fewer outpatient visits and hospitalizations. These data yield a cost-to-savings ratio of approximately 1:4.
Partnering with the Wyoming Center on Aging to offer Healthy U in your community brings with it a number of benefits. Healthy U:
Since 1996, CDSMP and its affiliated programs have been the subject of numerous research studies all over the world. Those studies found that people who participate demonstrate the following outcomes:
To learn more about how you can bring Healthy U to your community or how you can support an existing local Healthy U program, you can contact us at (307) 766-2765 or at healthyu@uwyo.edu.