Self-Care

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Parents offer encouragement and support to their children for self-care, like being active, eating healthy, and getting enough rest.

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"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."
"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."