Long-Term Conditions

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

'It is a pertinent text for courses that prepare practitioners and managers for the optimising care for people with long term conditions and equally importantly for empathising with their predicament.' -- Jim Young * Glycosmedia.com *