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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
224 pages
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216x138mm
978-0-19-852882-1
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Paperback
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26 January 2006
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- 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.
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Frankie Campling, A writer who has a long-term illness, and Michael Sharpe, Professor of Psychological Medicine and Symptoms Research, School of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Edinburgh, UK
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"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
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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
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