Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions:Self Management of Heart Disease, Arthritis, Diabetes, Asthma, Bronchitis, Emphysema and others (Third Edition)

This book is a must have for anyone who has a chronic condition, is a caretaker of someone with a chronic condition, or just knows someone with a chronic condition. Having facilitated chronic disease self management classes, I can truly say that everyone finds something useful in this book. I have given copies to family members, and suggested it to friends. The information is basic and simple, but information that we should always keep at our fingertips. The "action" plans are for everyone and the information on future planning and healthy living, including exercises, is a goldmine. The book delves into the emotions that we feel when faced with a chronic condition and the "symptom" cycle. The best part is that it gives you the attack strategy to fight back and deal effectively with all these issues! Highly recommended and extremely useful book.

I was recently diagnosed with COPD and bought this book, along with several others dealing with chronic illness. "Living a Healthy Life...." is the only book you need; a thorough, complete and very upbeat guide. The book deals with understanding the illness, dealing with depression, learning how to self-manage, specific exercises for the illness you have, medication, diet, planning for the future and much more. I refer to it almost daily.Be aware that the book is updated regularly! I have the third edition.

I purchased this book for a class. Initially I was concerned about not receiving it in time but it arrived in plenty of time for the class. The book is one that I am happy to have in my library because it gives so much information about chronic illness. I like the way it goes into great detail about possible medical conditions and the mental attitude necessary to get through depression and the steps necessary to move through it.

I used this book as the recommended companion piece to a six week online workshop about being both a cancer survivor and a good self- manager of one's health. The book helped to flesh out many of the concepts in the workshop and I'm glad I have it to refer to, in the future.

This book arrived much quicker than I expected with a nice note attached that was very sweet! It was in excellent condition. Although the workshop I was in had loaned me a copy, I found this book so useful, I wanted to purchase my own and I'm glad that I did as I will be referring back to it when the workshop is over. I will buy from this dealer again if I have the chance in the future.

LOVE this book! Your choice. Focus on your illness & the negative things surrounding that OR focus on doing what you can towards being healthy & the positives in your life? Your choice. This book gives steps on how to make small changes toward the goal being as healthy as possible, as well as realizing your full potential & appreciating the positives in your life. Awesome book!

I found this to be an excellent text full of good information. It is written with the layman in mind and explains necessary background information sufficiently to understand why the recommendations and suggestions made are reasonable and necessary. I highly recommend this book to folks with chronic illness or even to those who simply want to get fit and be healthier.

My father is 88 years old and tends to hate going to the doctor. He felt no different even after going to the hospital for congestive heart failure and then having a stroke. I bought him this book and he thanked me profusely saying that it will help him to manage his condition. Obviously the approach in the book was non-threatening and appealed to him.

Having been on a course using this book I decided to get a copy for myself. It is full of helpful advice on how to cope with various conditions and positive attitudes towards managing them.

Helpful- I started swimming and it made a lot of difference

Very useful book if you have chronic illnesses

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