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Commended in the Popular Medicine Category of the 2007 BMA Medical Book Competition

Living with a Long-term Illness: The Facts

Frankie Campling and Michael Sharpe

Price: £12.99 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-852882-1
Publication date: 26 January 2006
218 pages, 216x138 mm
Series: The Facts Series
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Reviews

'A fine book recommended read for people with long-term illness and their carers. This is an easy-to-read book. I will be recommending it to others and adding to the "really useful book" list I keep for patients in my general practice.' - BMA Medical Book Competition 2007
'This is a well-written and comprehensive self-help guide...packed with useful, practical, sensible information that must be of benefit to anyone with a long-term illness.' - Roger Woodruff, Director of Palliative Care, Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia
'... it provides a solid framework through which to approach living with a long-term condition. ... If you are genuinely wanting to discover ways of helping yourself and helping others to help you more effectively, then this is a good place to begin.' - Ehlers-Danlos Support Group Newsletter
'The problems of long-term illness or chronic pain are difficult to live with not just for the patient but close relatives, friends and carers too. This book is written with great understanding.' - Osteoporosis News

Description

A unique collaboration between someone with an illness and a physician, giving the kind of personal perspective usually lacking in patient guide books
Provides the reader with a 'tool box' from which they may choose the techniques and strategies appropriate to them, their illness and their symptoms
Looks sympathetically at the caring/cared for relationship and suggests ways of making it easier, as well as advising on how to seek further help

All long-term illnesses, whatever their diagnosis, have much in common. The difficulties and challenges that come with illness, and the strategies to overcome them, are shared by most patients. Managing an illness effectively and tackling the difficulties it causes can greatly improve how you feel and your quality of life.

This book identifies the challenges posed by illness and suggests a wide variety of ways in which you might meet them. Key to this is the idea of becoming expert in managing your own illness and learning how best to deal with it. The authors accept that you know more than them about how you experience it, so that rather than telling you what to do, they offer a tool box from which you may pick the strategies that best suit you.

The two authors, one a person with a long-term illness and one a doctor, combine their expertise and experience to offer a practical and comprehensive guide along your own unique journey.

If you have a long-term illness, or if you care for someone who does, then this is a book for you.

Readership: This is a book for those people who live with a long-term (chronic) illness, and for their carers, family, and friends. Doctors and health care professionals will find that it gives them a better understanding of how such patients can be helped, as well as giving them more insight into patients' views of what it like to have such an illness.

Contents

Introduction

Section I - Long-term Illness and You

1. What is long-term (chronic) illness?

2. Long-term illness as a journey

3. Gathering information and becoming an expert patient

4. Managing disease

5. Managing illness

6. Keeping going with a self-help programme

7. Using complementary/alternative medicine

Section II - Managing Physical/Biological Problems

8. Managing fatigue

9. Managing pain

10. Using activity and exercise

11. Improving your sleep

12. Managing bladder and bowel problems

13. Looking after your general health

14. Eating wisely and well

Section III - Managing Emotional and Psychological Problems

15. Setting goals for yourself

16. Dealing with problems

17. Building pleasure into your life

18. Living with uncertainty

19. Managing your thinking

20. Managing your self-esteem

21. Managing your emotions

22. Managing severe anxiety, panic or depression

23. Getting psychological help

Section IV - Managing Interpersonal Problems

24. Relationships and communication

25. Caring and being cared for

26. Improving your personal relationships

27. Your relationship with your doctors

Section V - Managing Practical Problems

28. Improving your quality of life

29. Getting practical and financial assistance

30. Thinking about the future

Summary

Appendices

The DISCERN instrument

Further information

Papers from medical journals

Authors, editors, and contributors

Frankie Campling and
Michael Sharpe, Professor of Psychological Medicine and Symptom Research, School of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Edinburgh

Links to web resources and related information

More in the same subject area:
Popular medicine
General practice
Palliative medicine

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