Chronic Illness Management Program: A Self-Care Approach

Chronic Illness
Management Presented by:-

Chronic-illness
• Chronic illness is the manifestation
of long-term disease that lasts for
more than 3 months.
• More than 50% of the world
population is seen to be affected
with some or the other chronic
disease (Brady et al.,2013).
• Some examples of chronic illness
would include, Arthritis, Asthma,
Cancer and Diabetes.
• The ‘HOPE’ program aims at
providing assistance to people in
order to ensure self-management of
chronic-illness.

Program Over-view
 The program is established on the guidelines of the self-care chronic
management program that aims to provide assistance to diabetic
patients through sessions on diet and exercise plan and disease
management techniques.
 Workshops to ensure:
 proper information about diabetes and assisted self-care
 Efficiency in managing medicines
 Proper nutrition and exercise
 6 months after workshop drastic improvement in health-stress
management and self-efficacy advocated by better communication
with physicians.

Program-Rationale
• On an average, studies have reported
371 million people to be affected with
Diabetes type-II every year (Ogurtsova
et al.,2017).
• Diabetes type-II is a clinical disease
caused due to the deficiency of Insulin
hormone and a hike in the glucose level
of the blood, a condition known as
Hyperglycemia (Shrivastava et al.2013).
• Diabetes mellitus have been ideally
defined as a pandemic chronic illness,
that requires education and support,
major lifestyle amendments and regular
monitoring of the glucose level so as to
avoid further complications. The vision
of ‘Hope’ is to educate and spread
awareness to promote self-care
(Ogurtsova et al.,2017).