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Western Journal of Nursing Research, Vol. 25, No. 1, 8-29 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/0193945902238830

Supporting Older Adults Living With Multiple Chronic Conditions

Susan J. Loeb

Janice Penrod

Sharon Falkenstern

Sarah Hall Gueldner

Leonard W. Poon

This qualitative study was conducted using focus groups to explore the strategies commonly employed by older adults (N = 37) to manage multiple chronic conditions. Key strategies identified were relating with health care providers, medicating, exercising, changing dietary patterns, seeking information, relying on spirituality and/or religion, and engaging in life. Although social support was not mentioned as a discrete strategy, the participants’ social networks were embedded in all of the categories. This study supports building a partnership of care in which nurses and other health care professionals function in supportive and educative roles to enhance the older person’s lifelong self-care management and ability to stay in control of multiple chronic health conditions.

Key Words: older adults • comorbidity • chronic conditions • coping


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