The Diabetes Manifesto: Take Charge of Your Life - Softcover

Crowe, Lynn; Stachowiak PhD, Julie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932603948 ISBN 13: 9781932603941

Publisher: Demos Health, 2010

Synopsis

"Named a 2011 Library Journal Core Nonfiction Book

The Diabetes Manifesto gives people with Diabetes a book that will help them feel in control of their lives, regardless of their changing symptoms or disease status. As diabetes is incurable, it is crucial that people learn to live with it, productively and to determines the role diabetes will play in their lives, rather than endure a lifetime of stress and regret because of this disease. The Diabetes Manifesto will help them achieve this. Diabetes can steal one's dignity in many ways and those living with it can be scared, frustrated, confused or desperate. This book is about taking steps to preserve the important parts of ones self in the face of an all-encompassing disease, and to hold on to one's dignity.

The Diabetes Manifesto will take the reader through different aspects of life with diabetes in search of ways to make small changes, garner ones energy for the positive, and lift the spirits. This includes optimizing medical care and managing symptoms, but also extends to relationships, emotions, activism, and much more. The book is clear that the mission of all should be tackling and treating diabetes effectively. Your personal Diabetes Manifesto is your commitment to exploring and developing the possibilities of your life. This book is your guide.

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About this title

About the Author

"Lynne was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was 12 years old. As a young woman, she began her quest to help people with diabetes as the Director of Youth Services of the American Diabetes Association of Southfield, Michigan. She designed and implemented statewide youth services program for young people living with diabetes. This program received national recognition within four years of inception. |

She received a Masters degree in Rehabilitation Counseling, from University of Scranton in 1991. She spent the next decade helping people with traumatic head injuries, working for both the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation and the Children's Specialized Hospital in Mountainside, NJ in rehabilitation. She then returned to work in the field of diabetes, this time in marketing and sales. |

Lynne is currently at Sanofi-Aventis as the Senior Product Manager in Diabetes Marketing. Her goal in this position is to inform people with diabetes of their options and to ensure that they are using their medications to achieve the best possible results.

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"Julie Stachowiak is the Guide to multiple sclerosis for About.com (the Internet property owned by the New York Times). She writes articles for the website (ms.about.com) the goal of which is to build a comprehensive Internet source of MS information. In that role she has been called by Josie Byzek of New Mobility Magazine ""the best MS writer on the web."" |

Julie has her doctorate in International Disease Control and Prevention from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, two Masters from Columbia University, one from the Columbia University School of Public Health in International Population and Family Health Specialization the other from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs in Human Rights and International Law/Soviet Studies Specializations. |

In 1993 she co-founded one of the first non-governmental AIDS/HIV organizations in Russia. AIDS infoshare has grown to be the most influential non-governmental organization dealing with the HIV epidemic in Russia (http://www.infoshare.ru/work/) and continues to fight to get information on the disease into the right hands. It was this work that informed her embrace of her own disease and her political stance on living with a chronic condition. |

She is the author of Demos Health's The Multiple Sclerosis Manifesto: Action to Take, Principles to Live By.

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Review

"Crowe and Stachowiak explain the most important self-management skills for dealing with any chronic illness. A realistic, positive, and assertive attitude combined with solid health information is the best defense in managing one’s optimal health. Their well-written, tangible, and achievable advice is outstanding. An essential title for diabetes patients, their families, and health-care workers."-Library Journal

"They aren't kidding when they titled it a manifesto. Julie and Lynn have written that book you wish existed at the time of diagnosis. No topic is excluded; they truly get into the grit of daily living with this complex disease, all the while still making it humanly possible. Every diabetic, newly diagnosed or a lifelong veteran, needs to read this book. We can all learn something from their wisdom and practical guidance."-Emily Berthold, Editor, The Misadventures of Peabody, bumbeta.blogspot.com

Written with passion and authority, The Diabetes Manifesto heartedly reframes diabetes self-management from victim to enlightened victor the person with diabetes commits to "strive for a little better every day" using the tools detailed in the book, "the bottom line" is that you can have diabetes and a long, healthy, emotionally and socially rich, and purpose-filled life. The Diabetes Manifesto is a volume of good news for people with diabetes, their families, and social networks! -Leandris C. Liburd, PhD, author of Diabetes and Health Disparities, Community-Based Approaches for Racial and Ethnic Populations

Together with co-author Julie Stachowiak, Crowe urges readers from the newly diagnosed to those who have lived with diabetes for some time, to truly become their own experts, to be assertive about what is needed, and to really take charge of their own diabetes for the healthiest outcome, both physically and emotionally. Bravo to The Diabetes Manifesto for sharing the tools needed to live with diabetes so that a person can have as much control of the condition as he or she could possibly have.” Cheryl Alkon, author, Balancing Pregnancy With Pre-Existing Diabetes and blogger, Managing the Sweetness Within, sweetnesswithin.blogspot.com

The Diabetes Manifesto has all the direction you’ll need to turn over a new leaf in your diabetes life, in scrupulous step-by-step detail. Overall, I found the book packed full of great information and recommendations."-diabetesmine.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Demos Health
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1932603948
• ISBN 13: 9781932603941
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280