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Tool Kit: Thriving and Surviving with Cancer Self-Management Program

By Claire Cameron
Feb 14, 2023

Developed with the Self-Management Resource Center

About The Thriving and Surviving with Cancer Self-Management Program

Congratulations! You have taken a big step toward managing your life with cancer. We are here to help.

Managing life with cancer is not easy. Cancer survivors want to have the best quality of life possible before, during, and after treatment. Dealing with physical and emotional problems can be challenging, especially when you are living with the uncertainties brought on by cancer, but you can do it! You can thrive!

This Tool Kit does not provide cures or miracles. Instead, it offers you information and skills that are helping cancer survivors lead fuller lives.

We hope that this Tool Kit contains most of what you need. We will not tell you what to do. Rather, we will give you tips and encourage you to try new things and to make the best choices for you. As with anything that is new, it may feel a bit awkward at first, but take it slow and easy. Try the different tools, then make corrections if necessary, to find what works best for you. Then over time, you will have your own set of tools to become better at managing your life.

So, let’s get started! The Tool Kit includes:

- A booklet, which begins with a Self-Test that will help you decide where you want to focus. You might start by taking the Self-Test and then scoring it. Your scores will suggest places to start. It also contains Tip Sheets about specific topics that others have found key in managing their conditions, and illustrations to accompany the exercise audio program.
- 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.
- 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.
- An exercise audio program with three different levels of exercises, all of which can be done at home.

We suggest that you spend a couple of hours a week learning and practicing the new skills. There is no right or wrong, so explore to find what works for you to manage better.

You can order Thriving and Surviving with Cancer Self-Management Program directly from us. We offer discounts of up to 40% on bulk orders.

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

Self-Management Tool Kits

By Claire Cameron
Dec 19, 2022

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 now!

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.

1. Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions, 5th Edition

2. Relaxation for Mind & Body CD

3. Exercises for Chronic Conditions CD

4. Chronic Disease Self-Test & Tip Sheets Booklet

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.

1. Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions, 5th Edition

2. Exercises for Chronic Conditions CD

3. Diabetes Plate Magnet

4. Diabetes Self-Test & Tip Sheets Booklet

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

1. Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Pain, 2nd edition, and Moving Easy CD

2. Relaxation for Mind & Body CD

3. Chronic Pain Self-Test & Tip Sheets Booklet

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

Post from Kate Lorig: It is a new year with new hope. A time to look back and forward.

By Claire Cameron
Jan 11, 2021

This post was first published on the Evidence-Based Leadership Collaborative website.

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Kate Lorig, DrPH

Self-Management Resource Center

Looking back none of us would have predicted that a pandemic would be added to the normal problems of aging. No one predicted that we would go months without seeing loved ones and friends. No one would have predicted that that within a month of the initial shut down in the spring beloved programs such PEARLS, Walk with Ease and the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program would be offered via Zoom or by phone. No one would have predicted that by the end of the year, most of the Evidence Based Programs including Matter of Balance, EnhanceFitness, Fit & Strong1 and HomeMeds would be offered or ready for remote delivery. To date more than 10,000 people had participated in these programs, pandemic, or not. Again, we have shown the agility of the aging community.

Even in the darkest hours there has been light. We now have many ways of offering many programs. This means that more people can attend. Some things have not changed.

First serving older people in communities where they live is key. Community agencies throughout the nation, although overwhelmed with serving their communities, have found the wherewithal to offer programs in their communities.

Second, we are learning that even with social distancing loneliness can be chased away and new friendships made. We have welcomed new programs. We receive letters from people attending remotely delivered programs.

Here is some of what they say:

“Just knowing that someone cared enough to have a program like this really touched my heart. This was what I needed to encourage me, to help myself.”

“I especially enjoyed the two break-out sessions we had. Gave us the opportunity to share with each other”

“I want to thank you for providing funding for this and other health related courses that if continued, would save millions in health-related costs to the Government.”

“This Zoom class was extremely helpful in setting a new path for better health. I would never have committed the time and effort to an in-person class. Being able to participate from my home was more than doable.”

And we move forward. We will not be anywhere near a new normal for many months. We will continue to social distance, wear masks, stay mostly in our homes. There is also a new thing we can do, get vaccinated. After ten months alone, ten months of worry, ten months of uncertainty, I am more than ready. For me, getting vaccinated is part of good self-management. At the same time, I understand the hesitancy and distrust of many. You are not bad, evil or ignorant. Everyone has a reason for their beliefs and actions.

For those of you who do not want to get a vaccination, I ask that you consider the risks with the benefits. If bad things were happening to the millions of people already vaccinated, we would know. It is hard to hide what is happening to that many people living all over the country. They represent every state, every race, every ethnicity, every age. They are us.

If you just don’t trust the vaccine, ask yourself if you trust yourself, your family, your friends, and your community to be safe without the vaccine? The vaccine will only allow you and the rest of us to return to normal when most of us are vaccinated. Then the disease cannot find a home in our home or our community.

If you are worried that we do not know enough, you are right. We do not know how long immunity will last, but even if it is a few months or years, in the meantime we will live, we will learn and if need be get vaccinated again. If you are worried about long term side effects of the vaccine, ask if the risk of the unknown is worth the possible long-term effects of the disease.

And so, we move forward. If you would like to attend an exercise, falls prevention, diabetes, pain, chronic disease, caregiver, depression management, behavioral health, or other healthy living program in the comfort of your own home, go to http://www.eblcprograms.org/evidence-based/map-of-programs/ and call the nearest organization offering programs. If they cannot help, call another organization in your state. Thanks so much to all our program leads who have worked so hard to move programs to virtual delivery.

Thanks so much to the wonderful community agencies who continued to offer programs in a very difficult time.

Most of all, thanks to all of you who participated in our programs and showed what was possible. Looking forward to seeing you in person or seeing you online. Elders and their wisdom lead the way.

Posted in Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions and News