Managing Long Term Conditions: A Social Model for Community Practice

Introduction.

1. Frameworks for Supporting Patients with Long Term Conditions (Marilyn Fitzpatrick).

2. Case Managers and Community Matrons (Margaret Presho).

3. Empowering Patients: The Role of the Expert Patient Programme in Promoting Health Amongst Those with Long Term Conditions (Clare Street and Caroline Powell).

4. Informal Carers: Valuing Our Assets (Maureen Deacon, Marilyn Fitzpatrick and Margaret Presho).

5. The National Service Framework for Long Term Conditions: Towards the Integration of a Learning Disability Perspective (Garry Diack).

6. Mental Health Promotion: The Key to the Effective Management of Long Term conditions (Maureen Deacon).

7. Managing Long Term Conditions from the Child's Perspective: Aspects of Vulnerability and Inequalities for Children with Complex Needs. (Ruth Thomas).

8. Psychosocial Consequences of Living with a Long Term condition (Diane Loggenberg).

9. Redocumenting Home and Managing Long Term Conditions: The Social Organization of Place and Space (Eileen Fairhurst).

10. Cultural Competence in Service Delivery (Margaret Presho).

11. Policy and Practice (Margaret Presho).

Index.