DELIVERING
SELF-MANAGEMENT
Quick Start
The Quick-Start Guide to Optimizing Life has been developed by the Institute for Optimizing Health Outcomes (IOHO) to help organizations implement self-management programs for patients and families and to generate a supportive environment to promote and encourage self-management behaviors. The Quick Start Guide provides the background, philosophy, and principles of patient self-management and self-management support. It includes the tools and tips needed for an organization to set up a lay-led self-management program, to educate healthcare professional staff and administrators about supporting self-management for patients and caregivers, and to engage community resources to participate in self-management partnerships.
Why IOHO's Quick Start Guide?
The recognition of the need for a systematic guide to starting and implementing patient self-management programs grew out of the Institute’s experience in delivering programs and helping other organizations get started.