Self-care is about individuals taking responsibility for their own self-management, health and wellbeing.
It means individuals making the most of their lives by coping with their difficulties and making the most of what they have. It includes managing or minimising the way conditions limit individuals’ lives as well as maximising what they can do to feel happy, confident and fulfilled, making the most of their lives.
Your role in supporting self-care is about working in partnership in a process of two-way communication, negotiation and decision making, where you and the individual contribute to the on-going care planning process to achieve the best possible outcomes for the individual; it is not about handing over responsibility to individuals but about partnership and working together.
Common Core Principles
The ‘Common Core Principles to Support Self Care’ aims to help health and social care workers to give individuals control over, and responsibility for, their own health and wellbeing.
This is part of the personalisation agenda, by putting individuals at the centre of the planning process and recognising that they are best placed to understand their own needs and how to meet them.
If you are interested, you can read the full document ‘Common Core Principles to Support Self Care’ by clicking on the blue button.
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