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Long-Term Conditions
Challenges in Health & Social Care

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December 2011 | 240 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Some people have always had to find ways of living with long term conditions such as diabetes or celiac disease, but as people live longer, increasing numbers of us now experience long-term poor health. While some conditions that previously limited the length of life are manageable a growing number of people live with long-term conditions. Against this backdrop, Long-Term Conditions explores the complex issues surrounding the experience of long-term illness and the enormous pressure this puts on individuals, their families and careers and on health and social care services.

The perspectives of each of these groups are voiced within this book, with chapters written by people who use health and social care services, careers, policy-makers and practitioners.
Using a variety of research methods to get to the heart of the matter, the book probes assumptions about the experience of long-term poor health and what constitutes good care. Its aim is to challenge readers to think critically about existing policy and provision and to inspire change based on sound evidence and a drive towards greater multi-professional working.

Long-Term Conditions provides academics, practitioners and students with a thorough grounding in the complex issues surrounding the experience and management of long-term illness. It is an ideal text for courses on policy, management and practice in health and social care.

Cathy E. Lloyd and Tom Heller
Introduction
 
PART ONE: RECEIVING CARE
Cathy Lloyd
Introduction
Sir Terry Pratchett
Living with Early Dementia
Margo Milne with Mary Larkin and Cathy E. Lloyd
Disability and Illness: The Perspective of People Living with a Long-Term Condition
Katharine Barnard and Cathy E. Lloyd
Experiencing Depression and Diabetes
Elaine Denny
Experiencing and Managing Medically Unexplained Conditions: The Case of Chronic Pelvic Pain in Women
Sara MacKian
Me and ME: Therapeutic Landscapes in an Unfamiliar World
 
PART TWO: WORKING WITH PEOPLE WITH LONG-TERM CONDITIONS
Tom Heller
Introduction
Rachel Purtell and Andrew Gibson
How to Make Health and Social Care Research Radical and Really, Really Useful
Tom Heller
Naught for Your Comfort: Quality of Primary Care for People with Long-Term Conditions
Cathy E. Lloyd and Sarah Earle
Diabetes and Pregnancy: Service-Users' Perspectives on Services and on Research
Ruth A. Howard, G. Urquhart Law and Jane L. Petty
Coeliac Disease: Psychosocial Factors in Adults and Children
Mary Larkin
Working with Vulnerable People: Experiences of Disability
 
PART THREE: DELIVERING HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE FOR PEOPLE WITH LONG-TERM CONDITIONS
Alistair Hewison
Introduction
Alistair Hewison
Delivering Health and Social Care for People with Long-Term Conditions: The Policy Context
Erica Richardson
International Experiences of Integrating Health and Social Care for People Living with HIV
Tom Heller
Worth a Risk? Risk Taking and People with Long-Term Conditions
Mary Larkin
What About the Carers?
Stephen Pattison
Ethics and Long-Term Conditions: A Reflective Approach

This book is a welcome addition to the literature available on Long Term Conditions

Mrs Joanna Kerridge
Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, University of West London
February 15, 2013

A useful resource which links the challenges of policy implementation with the experience of those living with long term conditions. Very insightful in places.

Mrs Gillian Wilson
Faculty of Health & Social Care, Hull University
October 9, 2012

Good introduction - was realy interested in dementia side but found useful as extra reading for chemotherapy course

Mrs Laureen Hemming
Dept of Nursing & Midwifery, Hertfordshire University
August 10, 2012

A good book that highlights how to manage long term conditions and gives the reader a better understanding of how to provide support.

Mrs Jan Roberts
Childcare, Herefordshire College of Technology
July 9, 2012

once the students opened this book they were able to compete work without asking for advice all of the time. the level of study matched the book.

Mrs Karen Cooke
Health & Care, Trafford College
June 25, 2012

A very current look at the issues regarding the management of long term conditions. Easy to read text that allows the reader to read specific topics of interest.

Shared with a service user who was particularly pleased to see a chapter on issues associated with Coeliac disease.

Mrs Julie Holland
Dept of Health & Social Care, Chester University
March 27, 2012

I liked this and found it most helpful in providing different perspectives on LTC's, which is essential if to provide effective care. My students come from very diverse areas and for those working with LTC's I will be strongly recommending this to them. It is succinct, utilises current explicit evidence base and encourages them to critically reflect on the policy impacts - all of which I encourage throughout my programme. Thank you.

Mrs Christine Jackson
department of community health and social care, Hull University
March 7, 2012

This book will encourage students to take a different approach to long term conditions. This book considers the challenges from all perspectives of health and social care.

Mrs Pauline Williams
Health , Cheshire Hospices Education
December 12, 2011
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