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Self-Management Tool Kits

Proven Tools for Remote Learners

Bull Publishing offers chronic disease, diabetes and chronic pain tool kits for participants who are at home. Below are the details for each.
 
 
The Thriving and Surviving with Cancer Self-Management Program includes the following materials and is priced at $59.95 each. Available February 14, 2023!
 

1) A booklet, which begins with a Self-Test that will help you decide where you want to focus. 

2) The latest edition of Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions written by experts in the field. Even more important—all the authors have chronic conditions.

3) A relaxation audio program with four different relaxation exercises. The first is only five minutes, for a quick start, and the others are about 15 minutes each.

4) An exercise audio program with three different levels of exercises, all of which can be done at home. 

 

The Chronic Disease Self-Management Tool Kit includes the following materials and is priced at $47.96 each. It is also available in Spanish.

 
 
 
 
 
 

The Diabetes Self-Management Tool Kit includes the following matierals and is priced at $41.56 each. A Spanish Diabetes Tool Kit is also available.

 
 
 
 
 
 

The Chronic Pain Self-Management Tool Kit includes the following materials and is priced at $38.36 each:

 
 
 
 
 
If your organization has a supply of some materials, such as the book or relaxation CD, you can purchase the remaining products and build-your-own Tool Kits to include digital products using this form - https://www.bullpub.com/cdsmp-tool-kit-order-form.html.
 
If you are interested in digital (eBook or MP3) options for books and CDs, please email Emily@bullpub.com with questions.
 

Shipping 

We can ship everything directly to you. 
 
Or, we can ship complete kits to individual participants. If this is what you require, email us a spreadsheet with names and address. We will send them via US media mail to be delivered in 7-10 business days. Please download our spreadsheet to ensure the names are in a format we can use. 
 
 
Cost prohibits us from shipping kits to individual participants in Canada. 
 

Questions?

Please feel free to email Emily - emily@bullpub.com - with any questions or to place an order.
 

 

Posted in Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions, New Releases, News and Our Books

New Review: The Last Things We Talk About: Your Guide to End of Life Transitions

The Last Things We Talk About Your Guide to End of Life Transitions

Our book, The Last Things We Talk About: Your Guide to End of Life Transitions by Elizabeth Boatwright, is reviewed in the recent issue of the Society of Certified Senior Advisors Journal.

The review isn't available online, but we are thrilled to read that reviewer John "Skip" Frenzel, of Agape Long Term Care, uses the book in his work as a consultant. 

Among other things, Frenzel says the book is, "thorough and covers many details that are often overlooked . . . I strongly recommend it." 

More about The Last Things We Talk About: Your Guide to End of Life Transitions by Elizabeth Boatwright.

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Changes to the new 2nd Edition of Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Pain

Living a Healthy Live with Chronic Pain - cover

The new edition of Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Pain, 2nd Edition will be ready to ship on June 11, 2021. 

In this new second edition, the authors have carefully developed and improved every chapter.

Packed with useful advice, tips, strategies, and positive reinforcement, the book empowers readers to become their own informed pain self-managers. 

 

Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Pain

 

Highlights of the changes to this edition: 

  • - An updated and scientifically sound discussion of pain in Chapter 1 that gives readers the information they need to best manage their personal pain.

  • - An updated resources chapter with a useful emphasis on how to find and judge online resources.

  • - New more in-depth coverage of mental health issues related to pain, including depression, anger, fear, guilt, stress, and memory problems.

  • - An all-new chapter, Organizing and Pacing Your Life for Pain Self-Management and Safety that includes thorough, well-illustrated information on using assistive technology.

  • - Completely rewritten exercise chapters with clearer illustrations to help readers build their own exercise program, step-by-step. This chapter also discusses taking advantage of exercise opportunities in the community.

  • - An updated communication chapter to assist readers as they navigate through the health care system, featuring helpful tips on remote communication as well as in-person visits.

  • - Another all-new chapter, Managing Pain During Employment and Unemployment, sensitively addresses the issues connected with experiencing pain in the workplace.

  • - Two completely updated chapters on weight management and nutrition that discuss the relationship between pain and nutrition and reflect current government standards and the most recent research.

The Moving Easy Program audio is included with the book. 

 

Questions?

If you have questions about the new edition, sign up for a newsletter for updates or email Emily (emily@bullpub.com) for more information.

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The Last Things We Talk About -- Our author Dr. Boatwright is a guest on The Financially Mindful Podcast

The Last Things We Talk About -- Our author Dr. Boatwright is a guest on The Financially Mindful Podcast

We are excited to be publishing The Last Things We Talk About by Elizabeth Boatwright, DMin, BCC-PCHAC, CFP®. 

 

book coverThe book will be available on April 6, 2021. 

The Last Things We Talk About gives readers and their loved ones the opportunity as death approaches to affirm, celebrate, and remember the people and experiences they cherish in life.

The author guides readers step-by-step through the process of making aging and death-related decisions. This includes defining personal values and wishes as well as planning for practical medical, financial, and legal considerations.

This book will help readers:

- Identify the people, experiences, and things that are important to them and help define and celebrate what gives life meaning and purpose

- Discover and define their goals and wishes regarding transitions, support, and the legacy they wish to leave behind

- Understand important topics such as legal, financial, and medical documents, the continuum of care, and end-of-life decisions

- Find professionals to help them put together inventories for financial, legal, and practical matters

- Explore options and plan for culturally and spiritually sensitive end-of-life rituals and celebrations

- Learn what needs to be done after death and how survivors can begin to piece their lives back together

 

Dr. Boatwright was recently a guest on the Financially Mindful Podcast. It's available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. 

 

The Financially Mindful Podcast - Episode Description

In this episode of The Financially Mindful Podcast, Reverend Libby Boatwright, Palliative and Outpatient Chaplain for Stanford Health Care and author of The Last Things We Talk About, shares her wealth of experience in end of life and legacy planning, touching on advanced directives, inventories, and legacy conversations. What is end of life planning? Where do I start? How can I help my family prepare financially for end of life?

These questions and more are answered in this episode of The Financially Mindful Podcast.

Dan is Founder and CEO of CanopyLife, a platform committed to building families’ financial resilience to deal with major life events. Dan founded CanopyLife after experiencing the financial and emotional cost of losing his dad to cancer, and wanting to help families avoid the same pitfalls. A Kellogg School of Management grad, Dan previously led new product development at Capital One and has nearly a decade of experience working in product development at startups focused on consumer, fintech and insurtech. In a prior life, Dan was a consultant at BCG and worked in Equities for Goldman Sachs and ABNAMRO.

Jim Grace is the Director of Wealth Management at Silver Pine Capital in Medfield, Massachusetts. ​Jim has more than a decade of experience in the financial services industry, leading Silver Pine’s financial planning and broader wealth management service offering. He has worked for MetLife and has managed for First Niagara (LPL Financial) and United Northeast Financial Advisors (Infinex Investments). He is father to two children.

About our Guest: Rev. Libby Boatwright is Chaplain for Outpatient Oncology Palliative Medicine for Stanford Health Care in Palo Alto, California. With a financial planning certification, Dr. Boatwright desires to be a catalyst for fiscally responsible and sustainable change in care systems involving community, medical, and spiritual centers. She is the author of The Last Things We Talk About: Your Guide to End of Life Transitions, an upcoming book about figuring out what brings you meaning and purpose and how to plot a fiscally feasible path to get there.

Insight from this episode:Dr. Boatwright’s expert advice and recommendations for end of life planning, from the legal and practical to emotional and spiritual. Strategies to starting the end of life planning conversation with loved ones and deciding on the most appropriate plan.How to “have your house in order” and prepare for end of life and legacy planning before it is too late. Details on what needs to be taken care of first in the case of an unexpected medical event.

What to listen? Find it on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. 

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Q&A: She teaches people with serious diseases how to help themselves

The Jewish News of Northern California interviewed our author Kate Lorig: 

Q&A: She teaches people with serious diseases how to help themselves

 

  • Excerpt: 

    J: It seems as if the self-management programs have grown organically from the first one you created at Stanford. What is the key to their success?

    Kate Lorig: People that attend like it and feel that they benefit, and we have pretty solid scientific evidence that these programs actually help people … and reduce health care costs. The programs can be given where people work and play in the community — from senior centers to park and recreation facilities.

 

Lorig and her co-authors have just published the new edition of Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions. Learn about the changes to the new edition. 

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International / Foreign Language Editions

Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions
  • U.S. 4th edition 
    Available in print, eBook audio CD, MP3
    Call 1-800-676-2855 or order online
    Leader materials available from the Self-Management Resource Center: http://www.selfmanagementresource.com

  • Canadian 4th edition (US 4th edition)
    Available in print, eBook, MP3
    Call 1-800-676-2855 or order online

  • Chinese  edition (US 3rd and 4th editions)
    The 4th edition translation is underway and we expect to have copies available in early 2018. Contact us at sales@bullpub.com and we can provide copies of the 3rd edition translation in the mean time.

  • Danish edition (US 3rd edition)
    Contact Komiteen for Sundhedsoplysning, Classensgade 71, 5., 2100 Kbenhavn 0 Denmark

  • Dutch edition (US 3rd edition)
    Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, Netherlands

  • Finnish edition (US 4th edition)
    Contact Sari Välimäki sari.valimaki@jkl.fi
    Bull Publishing can also make these files available in North America.

  • French Canadian 4th edition (US 4th edition)
    Available in print, call 1-800-676-2855 or order online

  • French (European) edition (US 3rd edition)
    Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions (French Edition for Europe). by Kate Lorig RN DrPH, Halsted Holman MD, David Sobel MD, Diana Laurent MPH, Virginia González MPH, and Marian Minor RPT PhD. Edited by Jörg Haslbeck, Edith Gabriel and Ilona Kickbusch. Careum Verlag: Zürich. Order online

  • German edition (US 3rd edition)
    Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions (German Edition). by Kate Lorig RN DrPH, Halsted Holman MD, David Sobel MD, Diana Laurent MPH, Virginia González MPH, and Marian Minor RPT PhD. Edited by Jörg Haslbeck and Ilona Kickbusch. Careum Verlag: Zürich. Order online

  • Japanese edition (US 4th edition)
    Japan Chronic Disease Self-Management Association, New Synsaka Building 2 Floor, 8-10-22 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 107-0052 Japan
    TEL: 03-6804-6712, FAX: 03-6804-6786 URL: http://www.j-cdsm.org

  • Korean edition (US 3rd edition)
    This is the translation of the 3rd edition into Korean-- the 4th edition has not been translated as of August 2014. Koonja Publishing holds the Korean language rights but they may be out of stock. If so, contact us at sales@bullpub.com and we may be able to provide PDF files of the 3rd edition translation.

  • Norwegian edition (US 3rd edition)
    Contact Sykehuset Ostfold, phone: +47 69 86 00 00

  • Portuguese edition (US 4th edition)
    The Portuguese translation is now available! Contact us at sales@bullpub.com and we can provide copies to be printed on demand.

  • Spanish 4th edition (Americas) (US 4th edition) Available in print, eBook, MP3
    Call 1-800-676-2855 or order online

  • Swedish edition (US 3rd edition)
    Contact Birgitta Lundberg birgitta.lundberg@ltblekinge.se

  • Welsh edition (US 3rd edition)
    Welsh Assembly Government; Quality, Standards & Safety Improvement Directorate; Phone: 029 2982 6526; heather.owens@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Please contact Emily Sewell at emily@bullpub.com with any additional questions.

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