"Self-care has been defined as the process of establishing behaviors to ensure holistic well-being of oneself, to promote health, and actively manage illness when it occurs."
Involves taking care of your body through regular exercise, proper nutrition, adequate sleep, and overall good hygiene.
"Individuals engage in some form of self-care daily with food choices, exercise, sleep, reading and dental care."
"Self-care is not only a solo activity as the community—a group that supports the person performing self-care—overall plays a large role in access to, implementation of, and success of self-care activities."
"Routine self-care is important when someone is not experiencing any symptoms of illness, but self-care becomes essential when illness occurs."
"General benefits of routine self-care include prevention of illness, improved mental health, and comparatively better quality of life."
"Self-care practices can greatly vary from individual to individual as it is a very personal act."
"Self-care is seen as a partial solution to the global rise in health care costs that is placed on governments worldwide."
"A lack of self-care in terms of personal health, hygiene and living conditions is referred to as self-neglect."
"The use of caregivers and personal care assistants may be needed."
"In their spearheading paper, they defined three self-management tasks: medical management, role management, and emotional management."
"Six self-management skills: problem solving, decision making, resource utilization, the formation of a patient–provider partnership, action planning, and self-tailoring."
"The process of establishing behaviors to ensure holistic well-being of oneself."
"[Self-care] promote[s] health and actively manage[s] illness when it occurs."
"Food choices, exercise, sleep, reading, and dental care."
"The community [...] plays a large role in access to, implementation of, and success of self-care activities."
"Self-care becomes essential when illness occurs."
"Prevention of illness, improved mental health, and comparatively better quality of life."
"Self-care practices can greatly vary from individual to individual."
"Self-care is seen as a partial solution to the global rise in health care costs."
"A lack of self-care in terms of personal health, hygiene and living conditions is referred to as self-neglect."