Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions:Self Management of Heart Disease, Arthritis, Diabetes, Asthma, Bronchitis, Emphysema and others (Third Edition) |  | Authors: Kate Lorig, Halsted Holman MD, David Sobel MD, Diana Laurent MPH
Publisher: Bull Publishing Company
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ISBN: 1933503017
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Publication Date: September 1, 2006
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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.
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 Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions... December 11, 2003
Bruce Jones (Portage, Indiana)
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
This book does an excellent job of presenting how chronic illness patients are overwhelmed and how they can aggressively
confront the debilitating cycle and successfully manage the lifestyles they must lead. Everyone with a chronic illness is forced to live differently than all others, no matter their age.
The book analyzes and describes the depleting cycle that anyone with a chronic, dibilitating illness encounters, and offers proven solutions on how to break the debilitating cycle and progress outward inspite of the illness.
It is not only an educational book-it manages to be an eye-opener with its wealth of information and advice February 19, 2010
Norman Goldman (Montreal)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Over the past twenty years the Stanford Patient Education Research Center has developed, tested, and evaluated self-management programs for people suffering from chronic health problems. The objective of these programs is to help people gain self-confidence in the ability to control their problems and learn how health problems have an impact on their lives. Several manuals have been put together to go along with these programs. One such manual is Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions that instructs people with a chronic disease how to cope and live with it.
You are probably asking how can you have an illness and still live a healthy life? As pointed out in the manual's introduction, it is important to look at the consequences of most chronic diseases. In most cases, no matter what the disease may be such as heart disease, diabetes, liver disease, emphysema, Parkinson's or any other one, there is often one common ingredient, they cause most individuals to lose physical conditioning that results in fatigue. Moreover, there may also be emotional distress, frustration, anger, depression, or a sense of helplessness. As the manual points out: "Health is soundness of body and mind, and a healthy life is one that seeks that soundness." Consequently, if you want to live with a chronic illness, you have to work hard at overcoming the physical and emotional problems associated with the disease. Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Disease focuses on how to receive the greatest possible physical capability and pleasure from life. One caveat, the manual does not present miracles or cures, rather its emphasis is on tips and ideas to make your life easier. The advice emanates from physicians and other health professionals, who have learned to positively manage their illness.
Divided into twenty-one chapters, the manual covers such topics as becoming an active self-manager, finding resources, understanding and managing common symptoms, using your mind to manage symptoms, the positive effect of exercise, communicating, sex and intimacy, eating habits, managing your medicines, making treatment decisions, managing such chronic diseases as lung, high blood pressure, arthritis, diabetes, and planning for the future concerning fears and reality. The last chapter provides over two hundred helpful hints.
Beginning with an over-view of self-management, the authors explore chronic illness in general and point out the most common problems. The authors also provide advice and guidance concerning self-management skills that are unique to a particular disease, although as mentioned, many of these still have much in common. The remaining chapters provide the details needed to master many of the self-management skills.
Some people suffering from a chronic illness will withdraw and their disease becomes the center of their existence. However, there are others who realize how harmful this can be and somehow manage to get on with their life. As mentioned, the difference is between the two approaches and it is not the disease, but rather, how a person copes with a chronic disease and how they manage the disease.
The manual explores in detail the following: recognition that you are your own manager and like a manager of a business or household you must decide the following: what you wish to accomplish; try to seek out alternative ways to accomplish your goal; begin with short-term plans by creating an action plan or an agreement with yourself; carry out the plan; verify the results; make the necessary changes; and remember to reward yourself. These are the essential steps in becoming an active self-manager.
More precisely, there are four chapters that are strictly devoted to exercise, and as the authors assert: "Regular exercise and physical activity are vital to your physical and emotional health and can bring you fun and fitness at the same time." These chapters include diagrams, exercise problems and possible solutions, suggested further readings, and a multitude of other aids.
Two chapters explore the problems people with chronic diseases have with communicating either with family or friends or their health care providers. The authors discuss ways to improve the communication process. An entire chapter deals with sex and intimacy, as couples living with a chronic health problem often face a challenge in keeping this important aspect of their relationship alive and well. Another very comprehensive chapter deals with healthy eating. Topics covered are what is healthy eating, planning a healthy meal, reading food labels, an extensive food guide, and several tips concerning certain chronic diseases as diabetes, heart, and lung. Considerable ink is devoted to managing you medicines and making treatment decisions. What can we believe when it comes to new medications and how do we decide what might be worth a try. There are four chapters that deal uniquely with a specific disease as lung, heart disease and high blood pressure, arthritis, and diabetes.
The last two chapters devote themselves to planning for the future and helpful hints.
With its clear and organized structure, Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions succeeds where so many books of a similar nature fail. It is not only an educational book-it manages to be an eye-opener with its wealth of information and advice.
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor Bookpleasures
Positive Help June 8, 2009
PM (Van Nuys, CA United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
My father is 88 years old and tends to hate going to the doctor. He felt no different even after going to the hospital for congestive heart failure and then having a stroke. I bought him this book and he thanked me profusely saying that it will help him to manage his condition. Obviously the approach in the book was non-threatening and appealed to him.
Chronic Conditions March 8, 2010
Bette E. Angstadt (Houston, TX)
This book is an excellent summary of current findings on several chronic conditions prevalent in our society including heart disease, arthritis, diabetes, asthma, bronchitis, emphysema and others. It offers many suggestions for both patient and caretaker in dealing with problems in daily living with the above mentioned diseases.
Living a Healthy Life with Cgronic Conditions. May 17, 2010
Carolyn (California)
Since I have had both Lupus and HepC for 40 years, it is an informative book on how to handle the fatigue and still have energy to do fun things.
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