Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions : Self-Management of Heart Disease, Fatigue, Arthritis, Worry, Diabetes, Frustration, Asthma, Pain, Emphysema, and Others

by Lorig, Katie RN; Sobel, David MD; Gonzalez, Virginia MPH; Minor, Marian RPT

• ISBN13: 9781933503011
• ISBN10: 1933503017
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-01
• Publisher: Bull Publishing Company

Summary

Filled with hundreds of tips, suggestions, and strategies, this guide offers practical medical solutions in clear language. It 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 minimize 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. Lleno de cientos de consejos, sugerencias y estrategias, esta guia ofrece soluciones medicas practicas en un lenguaje claro y facil de entender. Explica como desarrollar y mantener programas de nutricion y ejercicio, manejar sintomas, determinar cuando es necesario pedir ayuda medica, trabajar efectivamente con doctores, encontrar programas comunitarios, discutir la enfermedad con la familia y como adaptar ciertas actividades sociales a diferentes condiciones. Escrito por seis medicos profesionales, este libro respalda una perspectiva individual al procesola meta siendo el mejor manejo propio de la salud. Basado originalmente en un estudio de cinco anos en la Universidad de Stanford con cientos de voluntarios, esta obra ha crecido a incluir las reacciones de medicos y pacientes alrededor del mundo.

Author Biography

Kate Lorig, RN, Dr.PH, is a director and senior research scientist at the Stanford University School of Medicine's Patient Education Research Center. Halsted Holman, MD, is a professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. David Sobel, MD, is director of patient education and health promotion at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Northern California Region. Diana Laurent, MPH, is a chronic disease health educator at Stanford Patient Education Research Center. Virginia Gonzalez, MPH, is a chronic disease health educator at Stanford Patient Education Research Center. Marian Minor, RPT, PhD, is an assistant professor at the University of Missouri, Department of Physical Therapy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Overview of Self-Management	1	(16)
Becoming an Active Self-Manager	17	(14)
Finding Resources	31	(8)
Understanding and Managing Common Symptoms	39	(32)
Using Your Mind to Manage Symptoms	71	(22)
Exercising for Fun and Fitness	93	(16)
Exercising for Flexibility and Strength: Warm-Up/Cool-Down	109	(22)
Exercising for Endurance: Aerobic Activities	131	(18)
Exercising Tips for People with Specific Chronic Illnesses	149	(10)
Communicating	159	(24)
Sex and Intimacy	183	(8)
Making Your Wishes Known: Advance Directives for Health Care	191	(10)
Healthy Eating	201	(38)
Managing Your Medicines	239	(16)
Making Treatment Decisions	255	(4)
Managing Chronic Lung Disease	259	(28)
Managing Heart Disease and High Blood Pressure	287	(20)
Managing Arthritis	307	(10)
Managing Diabetes	317	(24)
Planning for the Future: Fears and Reality	341	(16)
200+ Helpful Hints	357	(18)
Index	375