Kate Lorig

Building Better Caregivers shares the best in caregiving research and the most important lessons learned from thousands of caregivers.

Outcome Measures for Health Education and Other Health Care Interventions provides more than fifty self-administered scales for measuring health behaviors, health status, self-efficacy, and health care utilization. In addition, this extensive volume provides a detailed case study of how instruments were conceptualized and developed for the Chronic Disease Self-Management Study and provides complete psychometric details for all measures not previously published.

Filled with hundreds of tips, helpful suggestions, and strategies to deal with chronic illness, to manage emotions, and to live a productive life, this work includes suggestions for setting goals, making decisions, and finding resources and support. It also offers information about exercise, healthy eating, and intimacy and sex.

Filled with hundreds of tips, suggestions, and strategies, this guide offers practical medical solutions in clear language. It explains how to develop and maintain exercise and nutrition programs, manage symptoms, determine when to seek medical help, work effectively with doctors, properly use medications and minimize side effects, find community resources, discuss the illness with family and friends, and tailor social activities for particular conditions. Written by six medical professionals, this book encourages an individual approach to the process, with the ultimate goal being greater self-management. Originally based on a five-year study conducted at Stanford University with hundreds of volunteers, this work has grown to include the feedback of medical professionals and thousands of people with chronic conditions all over the world.