What is it about?
The article is about the importance of everyday life for solving the dilemmas and challenges people with multimorbidity face in managing their treatment burden and navigating a mono-diagnostic organised health care system.
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Why is it important?
Individual ressources and priorities in everyday life play a dominant role when people with multi-morbidity have to resolve dilemmas and navigate the tension between everyday life and the health care system. However, the importance of everyday life is often underestimated and is seldom an active and visible part of planning treatment courses.
Perspectives
To support people with multi-morbidity in resolving the dilemmas and challenges they must face it is suggested to increase focus on patient-centredness and plan health care through cooperation between health professionals and people with multimorbidity in a way that integrate both health and everyday life priorities.
Lisbeth Ørtenblad
Public Health and Health Services Research, DEFACTUM, Central Denmark Region
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This page is a summary of: Multi-morbidity: A patient perspective on navigating the health care system and everyday life, Chronic Illness, September 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1742395317731607.
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