Handbook of Self-Management and the Lived Experience of Healthcare

This edited book focuses on the role of self-management in healthcare and how it may enhance the medical treatment, management and rehabilitation of service users. It offers expert perspectives on topics covering tools and techniques and how they are being incorporated into healthcare, but also critically appraising forthcoming implementation.

Handbook of Self-Management and the Lived Experience of Healthcare begins by introducing the importance of self-management with contemporary and innovative approaches. The book focuses on the impact of self-management and how it affects interpersonal and client based perspectives. The chapters examine how these strategies can help and/or hinder patient/service user outcomes. Each chapter explores the multifaceted use and application of each self-management strategy within its respective specialty and its impacts on diagnosis, treatment, and future management of individuals. It encompasses an array of examples of self-management strategies that will remain pertinent to caregivers, families, practitioners, service users and policymakers. This is not a text on self-management alone but on the societal implications, accompanied by ethical, altruistic and moral examples for such advances within the healthcare field. The book offers original discussions surrounding the interconnectivity of technology and medicine, rehabilitation and patient care.

This book will be useful for healthcare practitioners, researchers, and academics as it provides insight into both contemporary and innovative approaches within the medical field, and it can be used as a text to enrich scholarly learning, teaching and assessment to healthcare programmes nationally and internationally.