Main description:

Long Term Conditions is a comprehensive textbook for all nursing and healthcare students and practitioners that explores the key issues surrounding caring for patients with chronic diseases or long-term conditions. Divided into three sections, this book explores living with a long-term condition, empowerment, and care management. Rather than being disease-focused, it looks at key issues and concepts which unify many different long-term conditions, including psychological and social issues that make up a considerable part of living with a long-term condition. Within each of the chapters, issues of policy, culture and ethics are intertwined, and case studies are used throughout, linking the concepts to specific diseases.
Key features: * A comprehensive textbook on the principles and practice of caring for people with long-term conditions * User-friendly in style with learning outcomes, further reading, useful websites, and case studies throughout linking to specific conditions * Moves away from a disease-focused medical model, and takes a needs-led approach * Uniquely explores the overarching issues of living with one or more long-term conditions * Focuses on the importance of multi-disciplinary team work and collaborative teamwork in the management of long-term conditions

Contents:

SECTION ONE: LIVING WITH A LONG TERM CONDITION 1. Nutrition 2. Chronic pain: Living with chronic pain 3. Depression and long-term conditions SECTION TWO: EMPOWERMENT 4. Adaption in long-term conditions: the role of stigma particularly in conditions that affect appearance 5. Self-management in long-term conditions 6. Assistive technology- a means of empowerment 7. Risk and empowerment in long-term conditions SECTION THREE: CARE MANAGEMENT 8. Care coordination for effective long-term condition management 9. Rehabilitation in long-term conditions 10. Palliative care in long-term conditions: pathways to care