| View Larger Image | Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions: Self-Management of Heart Disease, Fatigue, Arthritis, Worry, Diabetes, Frustration, Asthma, Pain, Emphysema, and Others | Paperbackby Kate Lorig (Author), Halsted Holman MD (Author), David Sobel MD (Author), Diana Laurent MPH (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Bull Publishing Company | | Edition: | 3rdrd Edition | | Page Count: | 384 Pages | | Publication Date: | September 01, 2006 | | Sales Rank: | 188,658th |
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Product Description
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. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 4 reviews)
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Positive Help by PM (Van Nuys, CA United States)  5 Stars
June 08, 2009
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.
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I trained in this program and it helped tremendously by David Spero (San Francisco, CA United States)  4 Stars
December 23, 2003
This book started the Self-Management approach to chronic illness. I trained in the Self-Management program and have led groups for years, and have seen people make wonderful changes. This experience and knowledge inspired me to write my book, The Art of Getting Well.Drs Lorig, Holman, Sobel and the other authors lay out all you need to know to develop your programs of exercise, relaxation, emotional support, and healthy eating. They also teach how to deal successfully with medical systems and treatments. The book stresses living the best possible life, not just following medical orders or watching everything you eat. It's an excellent complement to my book, which will provide some inspiration to attempt the behavior changes that "Living a Healthy Life" explains so well.
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Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions... by Bruce Jones (Portage, Indiana) 5 Stars
December 11, 2003
This book does an excellent job of presenting how chronic illness patients are overwhelmed and how they can aggressivelyconfront 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.
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Good resource for seniors by Courtney L. Lewis (Kingston, PA USA)  3 Stars
June 30, 2000
This book, written in a very simple, "self-help" style, seems to be geared to the senior citizen suffering from chronic illness and emphasizes developing and implementing management plans for exercise, diet, and medical care. While much of it is common sense, it does offer bulleted, structured outlines for communicating with medical professionals, managing medicines, planning for the future (and possibly greater physical degeneration), and most of all acknowledges the feelings and depression that often accompany chronic illness.
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