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.
COVER......Page 1
TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 9
CHAPTER 1 Overview of Self-Management......Page 11
CHAPTER 2 Becoming an Active Self-Manager......Page 27
CHAPTER 3 Finding Resources......Page 41
CHAPTER 4 Understanding and Managing Common Symptoms......Page 49
CHAPTER 5 Using Your Mind to Manage Symptoms......Page 81
CHAPTER 6 Exercising for Fun and Fitness......Page 103
CHAPTER 7 Exercising for Flexibility and Strength: Warm-Up/Cool-Down......Page 119
CHAPTER 8 Exercising for Endurance: Aerobic Activities......Page 141
CHAPTER 9 Exercising Tips for People with Specific Chronic Illnesses......Page 159
CHAPTER 10 Communicating......Page 169
CHAPTER 11 Sex and Intimacy......Page 193
CHAPTER 12 Making Your Wishes Known: Advance Directives for Health Care......Page 201
CHAPTER 13 Healthy Eating......Page 211
CHAPTER 14 Managing Your Medicines......Page 249
CHAPTER 15 Making Treatment Decisions......Page 265
CHAPTER 16 Managing Chronic Lung Disease......Page 269
CHAPTER 17 Managing Heart Disease and High Blood Pressure......Page 297
CHAPTER 18 Managing Arthritis......Page 317
CHAPTER 19 Managing Diabetes......Page 327
CHAPTER 20 Planning for the Future: Fears and Reality......Page 351
CHAPTER 21 200+ Helpful Hints......Page 367
A......Page 385
C......Page 386
E......Page 387
H......Page 388
M......Page 389
P......Page 390
S......Page 391
Z......Page 392
