BACKGROUND Chronic medical conditions often occur in combination, as comorbidities,
rather than as isolated conditions. Successful management of chronic conditions depends …

This article provides an overview of barriers to self-care, patients' perceptions and
understanding of their chronic illness, interviewing techniques, and approaches nurse …

Objective To explore the perspectives of patients who live with multiple chronic conditions as
they relate to the challenges of self-management. Data sources On September 30, 2013, we …

Background Self-care is a key component of current policies to manage long term
conditions. Although most people with long-term health problems care for themselves within …

Older adults are increasingly living with and managing multiple chronic conditions. The self-
management of illness occurs in a social and political context in which the responsibility for …

PURPOSE Persons with multiple chronic diseases must integrate self-management tasks for
potentially interacting conditions to attain desired clinical outcomes. Our goal was to identify …

Abstract A Complex Chronic Disease (CCD) is a condition involving multiple morbidities that
requires the attention of multiple health care providers or facilities and possibly community …

Purpose Patients with multiple chronic conditions (multimorbidity) often require ongoing
treatment and complex self-care. This workload and its impact on patient functioning and …

Few studies have elicited barriers to patient self-management of chronic conditions, and
only one concerned people with two or more conditions. To inform development of Homing …

Objective There is a gap of knowledge among healthcare providers on characteristics of self-
management among patients with chronic diseases and complex healthcare needs …