Ebook: Living a healthy life with chronic conditions: for ongoing physical and mental health conditions

Overview of self-management -- Becoming an active self-manager -- Finding resources -- Understanding and managing common symptoms -- Using your mind to manage symptoms -- Exercise and physical activity for every body -- Exercising for flexibility, strength and balance: making life easier -- Exercising for endurance: aerobic activities -- Communicating with family, friends and health care professionals -- Sex and intimacy -- Healthy eating -- Healthy weight management -- Managing your medicines -- Making treatment decisions -- Managing chronic lung disease -- Managing heart disease, high blood pressure and stroke -- Managing chronic arthritis and osteoporosis -- Managing diabetes -- Planning for the future: fears and reality -- Index.;Completely redesigned for easy reading and fully updated with the latest research and information on current practice, medication, legal matters, and specific conditions, this new edition of a vital resource is full of tips, suggestions, and strategies to deal with chronic illness and symptoms, such as fatigue, pain, shortness of breath, disability, and depression. It encourages readers to develop individual approaches to setting goals, making decisions, and finding resources and support so that they are able to do the things they want and need.