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Title:Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions : Self-Management of Heart Disease, Fatigue, Arthritis, Worry, Diabetes, Frustration, Asthma, Pain, Emphysema, & Others
Author:Kate Lorig RN Dr PH, Halsted Holman MD, David Sobel MD & Diana Laurent MPH
ISBN:1933503017 : 9781933503011
Illustrations:b/w illus & tables
Format:Paperback
Size:215x280mm
Pages:382
Weight: .922 Kg.
Published:Bull Publishing Company - January 2006
List Price: 12.95 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Popular medicine: Coping with illness


Filled with hundreds of tips, suggestions, and strategies, this guide explains how to develop and maintain exercise and nutrition programs, manage symptoms, determine when to seek medical help, work effectively with doctors, properly use medications and minimise side effects, find community resources, discuss the illness with family and friends, and tailor social activities for particular conditions. Written by six medical professionals, this book encourages an individual approach to the process, with the ultimate goal being greater self-management. Originally based on a five-year study conducted at Stanford University with hundreds of volunteers, this work has grown to include the feedback of medical professionals and thousands of people with chronic conditions all over the world.

Overview of Self-Management; Becoming a Self-Manager; Finding Resources; Understanding Common Symptoms; Using Your Mind to Manage Symptoms; Exercising for Fun and Fitness; Exercising for Flexibility and Strength; Exercising for Endurance; Exercising Tips for People with Specific Chronic Conditions; Communicating; Sex and Intimacy; Making Your Wishes Known: Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care; Eating Well; Managing Your Medicines; Managing Chronic Lung Disease; Managing Heart Disease and High Blood Pressure; Managing Arthritis; Managing Diabetes; Planning for the Future: Fears and Reality; 200+ Helpful Hints.