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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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.
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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 signed up to take this Healthy Living course which involved this book. I highly recommend it to anyone with a chronic disease or anyone caring for someone with a chronic disease. It is loaded with helpful tips and information on how to live with chronic disease as well as how to exercise and eat healthy.
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