How to Support an Individual With a Chronic Disease

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Tip 1 - Building Peer Support Programs to Manage Chronic Disease: Seven Models for Success

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Fernando Iglesias | permalink

Group visits, peer coaches, phone and Internet support, and self-management training are some of the peer support programs that are as effective as they are affordable in managing chronic diseases.

For further reading: http://www.chcf.org/publications/2006/12/building-peer-support-programs-to-manage-chronic-disease-seven-models-for-success ^[1]

Tip 2 - Support for self care for patients with chronic disease

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Marie - Josu 00e 9 Willemsen | permalink

Anne Kennedy, Anne Rogers, and Peter Bower argue that effective self care requires fundamental changes in professional attitudes and the way health care is delivered

For further reading: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2071971/ ^[2]