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AGING <br /> AGING <br /> Program Highlights (Continued) <br /> • Continued to sustain and expand the statewide health prevention evidence based <br /> program, Chronic Disease Self-Management Program(CDSMP). The program <br /> also went through a name change. For better marketing recognition, CDSMP will <br /> now be known statewide as Better Choices, Better Health—Ke Ola Pono <br /> (BCBH). Ten island-wide workshops were conducted and served 89 elderly. <br /> BCBH informational presentations were made to organizations such as ILWU <br /> union, Veterans Administration, Hamakua Health Center, Tutu's House <br /> (Waimea), County of Hawai`i, Life Care Center of Hilo, AARP Hawai`i County, <br /> and RSVP. BCBH was also promoted at Health Fairs and Informational Fairs. <br /> • Honored twenty nominees at the popular Outstanding Older Americans Award <br /> Luncheon. A capacity crowd of over 300 cheered as Sylvia Abernathy of <br /> Holualoa and Wilfred"Kealoha" Sugiyama of Kohala were named the 2011 <br /> Outstanding Older Americans for Hawai`i County. <br /> 9 <br />