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Online Courses
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You will receive a certification of completion when you finish each course.
These interactive, self-paced classes are packed with actionable strategies to help you achieve your goals for a healthier life.
Benefits:
- ROOTED IN THE SCIENCE OF BEHAVIORAL CHANGE Each course is developed by Harvard experts to motivate members to focus on better habits, change their behavior and live healthier lives
- HOSTED BY MALIKA MARSHALL, MD Dr. Marshall is an Emmy-award-winning journalist and practicing physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and on staff at Harvard Medical School.
- INTERACTIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCE Accessible text, engaging video, fun quizzes, audio-enhanced slide shows, and useful PDF worksheets.
- EASY TO USE, ACCESSIBLE ANYTIME Take courses are your own pace with a computer, tablet, or smartphone.
- HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL COURSE CERTIFICATE Receive a certificate awarded upon each course completion.
Free online courses included with your NeverStop membership:
Stay Sharp
Improving your Memory
This online course helps demystify the way your brain works and gives you strategies to boost your memory. You’ll find out the types of information it’s normal to forget — and learn about red-flag symptoms that may merit seeing your doctor, and you’ll learn dozens of proven strategies that help you overcome common memory lapses and improve your memory.
Cognitive Fitness
In this fascinating course, you’ll learn about cognitive reserve — the brain’s ability to find alternate ways of doing something — and how it can help fight the brain changes associated with age. Plus, you’ll find out how you can boost your own cognitive reserve and buffer memory loss by challenging your brain.
Strengthen Your Heart
Managing Your Cholesterol
This empowering online course will add to your understanding of cholesterol’s impact on vascular health and introduce you to the strategies and tools you can use to control cholesterol with safety, confidence, and success. You’ll learn the best ways to successfully lower bad cholesterol, decrease elevated triglycerides, and achieve the strengthened and enduring heart health you want.
Controlling Your Blood Pressure
Let this dynamic new online course show you how to halt hypertension, boost cardiovascular fitness, and enjoy better and enduring good health.You’ll discover the strategies, medications, and simple lifestyle changes that can make a truly significant and measurable difference.
Manage Chronic Pain
Fighting Inflammation
This interactive course reveals how and why “good” inflammation can go terribly wrong. The surprising causes of “bad” inflammation and the specific threats it poses to your health and well-being. And best of all, how you can effectively combat the effects of harmful inflammation and lower your risk.
Sleep Well
Improving Your Sleep
You’ll learn about the problems that can keep you awake at night or have you nodding off in the middle of the day. You will be able to take advantage of advances to quiet snoring and breakthroughs to ease sleep apnea. You’ll also discover ways to eliminate costly sleep debt, create a more inviting sleep environment, and increase restorative deep sleep.
Boosting Your Energy
Discover how to jump-start your energy and fight fatigue… so you can start living your life again! Learn how — in just four weeks time — you can possess greater stamina, alertness, and supercharged drive! When we have energy, we feel ready to take on the world. In this online course, you’ll learn that simple lifestyle changes go a long way in combating fatigue caused by such factors as sleeplessness, stress, and lack of exercise. With a few simple changes, you’ll feel energized, more productive, and happier.
Reduce Stress
Stress Management
Chronic stress can exact a toll upon you — physically, emotionally, and psychologically. Stress Management, Harvard Health’s newest online course, will restore calm and put you in command! This course gives you the tools you need to build a powerful shield to protect yourself from stress and its effects.
An Introduction to Tai Chi
Introduction to Tai Chi is a fascinating course that will explain the amazing health benefits of this balance-boosting practice plus bring you how-to videos that teach you 20 different moves so you can create your own tai chi routine.
Yoga and You
Looking for safe and natural solutions to stay fit and healthy well into your 50s, 60s, and beyond? Think Yoga! Yoga is a powerful 2000-year old practice you can use to ease pain, lower blood pressure, boost immunity, reduce anxiety, and protect against the stresses of life.
Boosting Your Energy
Discover how to jump-start your energy and fight fatigue… so you can start living your life again! Learn how — in just four weeks time — you can possess greater stamina, alertness, and supercharged drive! When we have energy, we feel ready to take on the world. In this online course, you’ll learn that simple lifestyle changes go a long way in combating fatigue caused by such factors as sleeplessness, stress, and lack of exercise. With a few simple changes, you’ll feel energized, more productive, and happier.
Keep Moving
Starting to Exercise
Helps you create a safe, well-rounded exercise plan—one that fits your life and that you will be likely to stick with. Hundreds of studies show that exercise lowers your risk for serious health problems, including heart disease, diabetes, stroke, high blood pressure, and certain forms of cancer. What’s more, it eases arthritis and preserves independence while trimming your waistline.
Find Your Purpose
Positive Psychology
Harnessing the power of happiness, mindfulness, and inner strength with our easy-to-apply tools to help you enjoy enduring happiness — not just fleeting emotional highs, but a deeper long-term satisfaction and contentment in your life!
Improve Mental and Emotional Health
Understanding Depression
Harvard’s Understanding Depression Online Course is the reliable, go-to source for encouragement and practical advice to help you understand your illness and to discover the medications and therapy options to help you feel like yourself again.
Positive Psychology
Harnessing the power of happiness, mindfulness, and inner strength with our easy-to-apply tools to help you enjoy enduring happiness — not just fleeting emotional highs, but a deeper long-term satisfaction and contentment in your life!
Eat for Life
6-Week Plan for Healthy Eating
Although messages about diet and nutrition are everywhere these days, it isn’t always easy to eat right and choose the healthiest foods. Now, in this interactive and informative online course, you’ll get a simple, easy-to-follow plan that will help you get healthier in just 6 weeks. You will even learn which meal can help to reduce your risk of high cholesterol and may even help improve your memory.
Improve Mobility
Better Balance
A step-by-step course that pinpoints the specific causes of balance problems and tells and shows you exactly how you can become steadier on your feet, no matter what your age! At the heart of this online course are 44 short exercise videos narrated by renowned fitness instructor and best-selling author Michele Stanten.
Caregiver Support
The Caregiver’s Guide
This online course brings you the confidence and know-how to help you meet the unique physical, emotional and financial needs of your loved one. Step-by-step, this comprehensive, interactive online course gives you the tools, strategies, and reassuring support you need to provide compassionate, encouraging, confident care to a loved one — and, just as importantly, to take care of yourself.
