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SELF-MANAGEMENT: EMPOWERING THE PATIENT AND THEIRCAREGIVER“Good self-management support involves collaboration between patient and theircare provider, one in which the provider is a coach as well as clinician and thepatient and family are managers of daily care. Through collaboration patients,family, and providers share in<strong>for</strong>mation, understand a patient’s goals, and createa plan that all can use to guide care at home and in the clinical setting” IHI.Healthy People 2020On December 2, 2010, the U.S.Department of Health and HumanServices unveiled Healthy People 2020.The Healthy People objective is to“improve the quality of our Nation’shealth by producing a framework <strong>for</strong>public health prevention priorities andactions.” The impact of chronic diseasesis addressed and the goal <strong>for</strong>measureable improvement is stated.“Ultimately, patients are the largest healthcare work <strong>for</strong>ce available. Investing inpatients to give them the knowledge,confidence, and tools that enable them tobecome an effective and reliable work<strong>for</strong>cewill be essential to maintain, and hopefullyimprove, the quality of care <strong>for</strong> most longtermillnesses.”Cleland and Eckman, 2010, p. 1383.Self-management is integrated in some of the objectives <strong>for</strong> Healthy People 2020.Here are two of the objectives <strong>for</strong> older adults (the complete list of Older Adult–OA-objectives can be found here:http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topicsobjectives2020/objectiveslist.aspx?topicid=31)• OA-3 Increase the proportion of older adults with one or more chronichealth conditions who report confidence in managing their conditions• OA-4 Increase the proportion of older adults who receive Diabetes Self-Management BenefitsHealth care providers must actively understand theeffective interventions that promote self-management:self-management, self-management support, selfmanagementeducation, patient activation, and actionplanning.Self-management is the “individual’s ability to managethe symptoms, treatment, physical, and psychosocialconsequences and lifestyle changes inherent in living witha chronic condition. Efficacious self-managementencompasses ability to monitor one’s condition and affectcognitive behavioral and emotional responses necessaryto maintain a satisfactory quality of life” (Barlow, Wright,Sheasby, Turner, and Hainsworth, 2002, p. 178).- 17 -“Patients are more likelyto succeed with a healthbehavior change when thechange can be related to amatter that is importantto them and when they areconfident that they canachieve the change.”Simmons, Baker,Schaefer, Miller, andAnders, 2009, p. 18.

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