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Self care includes all health decisions people (as individuals or consumers) make for themselves and their families to get and stay physically and mentally fit. Self care includes exercising to maintain physical fitness and good mental health, as well as eating well, practicing good hygiene and avoiding health hazards such as smoking and drinking to prevent ill health. Self care is also taking care of minor ailments, long term conditions, or one’s own health after discharge from secondary and tertiary health care. For instances of neck pain, for example, self care is the recommended treatment.[8] Patients who are better informed and more educated to possess greater motivation for self care.[1] Individuals conduct self care and experts and professionals support self care to enable individuals to do enhanced self care. The recognition and evaluation of symptoms is a key aspect of self care.[4] The main issues involved with self care and the onset of illness are medically related such managing drug side effects, emotions and psychological issues, changes to lifestyle and knowledge acquisition to assist in decision-making.[1] Self care support has crucial enabling value and considerable scope in developing countries with an already overburdened health care system. But it also has an essential role to play in affluent countries where people are becoming more conscious about their health and want to have a greater role in taking care of themselves. To enable people to do enhanced self care, they can be supported in various ways and by different service providers. See also: Disease management (health) Support Self care support can include the following: Self care information on health and human body systems, lifestyle and healthy eating. Support to capture, manage, interpret, and report observations of daily living (ODLs),[9] the tracking of trends, and the use of the resulting information as clues for self care action and decision making. Information prescriptions[10] providing personalised information and instructions to enable an individual to self care and take control of their health Self care and self monitoring devices and assistive technology[11] Self care skills and life skills training programmes and courses for people Aid from spiritual care givers Advice from licensed counselors, clinical social workers, psychotherapists, pharmacists, physiotherapists and complementary therapists Self care support networks which can be face to face or virtual, and made up of peers or people who want to provide support to others or receive support and information from others. (Including a self care Primer for provider/consumer convergence.) Approaches Self care practices are shaped by what are seen as the proper lifestyle choices of local communities. Health-related self care topics include; General fitness training and physical exercise Healthy diet, diet foods and fasting Smoking cessation and avoiding alcohol abuse Personal hygiene Life extension Pain management Stress management Alternative medicine such as homeopathy and home remedies Self-help and personal development Self care portals[12] and the use of health apps A lack of self care in terms of personal health, hygiene and living conditions is referred to as self-neglect. The use of caregivers and Personal Care Assistants may be needed. An aging population is seeking greater self care knowledge primarily within families connections and with responsibility usually belonging to the mother.[7] |
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