If you have a chronic or long-term condition, you and your family have to manage it all day, every day. If you do, you can maintain a healthy, positive, productive life. If you don’t, you and your family may suffer unnecessarily. Self-management involves three different kinds of tasks - caring for your body, adapting your activities to your condition, and dealing with the emotions that illness brings. 

Self-management often involves medical treatments and therapies. It can also mean making lifestyle changes, such as eating better, reducing stress, or increasing exercise. You might also need to make changes in your life, like improving work or family relationships or changing how you interact with health care providers.

Whether you are a person with a chronic or long-term condition, or a family member, this section of New Health Partnerships will provide information, resources, and support you need.