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Self-Care Hub in Kirklees

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: Kirklees Council has taken up the strategic challenge to develop a Self-Care Hub, making the best use of technology to support local citizens living with a variety of long-term health conditions (LTCs).With increasing pressure on budgets and time, some service users with a LTC may see professionals for as little as an hour a year.It is therefore important to facilitate more self-care by service users.But many of them simply can't do this at present without support, and the Self-Care Hub aims to take the service user further on the journey than they could manage on their own, while still being supported by professionals when appropriate.It aims to shift the balance towards individual responsibility.

Source: International Journal of Integrated Care

DOI: 10.5334/ijic.1759

Authors: Simon Derek Bramwell, Nigel Dallard, Pamela Sheppard

Institutions: Advanced Digital Innovation (United Kingdom), Kirklees Council

Language: English

Topic: Chronic Disease Management Strategies

Subfield: Epidemiology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $1,839