Patient coaching volume 1
17.07.2012 16:50
Against the background of demographic change, the increase in chronic diseases and constantly rising healthcare costs, new, cross-sector and efficient approaches to care management are necessary. Patient coaches can make an important contribution to this. However, there is currently neither a generally valid quality standard for patient coaching nor for the training of a patient coach. This book aims to close this gap.
Patient coaching helps patients with therapy-appropriate behavior, orientation in the healthcare system, self-management and finding their own path through the illness and thus achieving individual health goals and a better quality of life - despite the illness. The significant consequences and follow-up costs of inadequate adherence to therapy and errors in the system can be reduced through patient coaching.
Numerous experts contributed to the first volume of the book “Patient Coaching” from the series of publications by the German Society for Citizen-Oriented Care Management (DGbV); They define the term patient coaching, fill it with content and describe the fields of activity and the job profile of a patient coach. The book also gives anyone interested in the topic an overview of the various aspects and, above all, the benefits of patient coaching.
The basis for this book was developed by the DGbV over a two-year period of preparation.
The patient should be given the feeling that in the person of the coach he finds both a supervisor and a confidant who will help him to fully and reliably implement the doctor's diagnostic and therapeutic measures.
The book is available
a. for the book trade at eRelation AG – Content in Health, the publisher of “Monitor Healthcare Research”. [email protected] or
b. directly via Amazon