The educational series will offer live broadcasts, supplemented with additional resources, to help sleep apnea patients navigate the journey from diagnosis to treatment.

Summary: Project Sleep is launching the Sleep Apnea Squad, an educational series aimed at raising awareness and providing resources for individuals with sleep apnea. Hosted by sleep apnea patient advocate Emma Cooksey, the program will cover a range of topics from diagnosis to treatment through live broadcasts, followed by PDF toolkits, podcasts, and social media content to cater to various learning styles. The initiative seeks to address the significant gap in sleep apnea diagnosis and support, with the first broadcast, “Could I have sleep apnea?” airing on August 6.

Key Takeaways:

Educational Series: Sleep Apnea Squad will offer live broadcasts on various sleep apnea topics, enhancing patient education.
Comprehensive Resources: Each broadcast will be supplemented with PDFs, podcasts, and social media materials.
Community Support: The initiative aims to build a supportive community for sleep apnea patients and their families.

Project Sleep, a nonprofit raising awareness of sleep health, sleep equity, and sleep disorders, is launching a new sleep apnea education program, Sleep Apnea Squad.

Hosted by sleep apnea patient advocate and Project Sleep’s sleep apnea program manager Emma Cooksey, this new initiative will explore various aspects of living with sleep apnea and provide resources to help patients and families navigate the journey from diagnosis to treatment.

Project Sleep’s Sleep Apnea Squad is a new educational program to empower people living with sleep apnea with important information and resources.

“According to the American Medical Association, about 30 million people in the United States have sleep apnea, but only 6 million are diagnosed,” says Julie Flygare, JD, president and CEO of Project Sleep, in a release. “This is why Project Sleep is taking action to help address this major public health gap so that more people get the information and support they need and deserve.”

Sleep Apnea Squat Topics

The Sleep Apnea Squad educational series will cover a variety of topics to help people living with sleep apnea and their loved ones navigate both the medical journey and the social experience. Each topic of the Sleep Apnea Squad series will be addressed first in a live broadcast, followed by a PDF toolkit, podcast, and social media shareables in order to accommodate various learning styles of our diverse community.

The first six live broadcasts will address the following topics:

“Could I have sleep apnea?”
Sleep Apnea Testing
Sleep Apnea Treatment Options
Making CPAP Comfortable
Fighting the Stigma of Sleep Apnea
New Medications for Sleep Apnea

“As someone who went undiagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea for more than a decade, I know how lonely and confusing this journey can be,” says Cooksey in a release. “I cannot wait to work with leading clinicians and patient advocates via the Sleep Apnea Squad series to foster an incredible and diverse community of empowered sleep apnea advocates across America and around the world.”

Project Sleep’s programming is made possible by individual donors and corporate sponsors including Eli Lilly and Company and Apnimed.

Sleep Apnea Squad’s first broadcast, “Could I have sleep apnea?” is airing live on Project Sleep’s YouTube channel on Aug 6 at 2 pm Eastern Time.