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Health Self-Management Among Older Prisoners: Current Understandings And Directions For Policy, Practice, And Research, Nicole Ruggiano, Andreja Lukic, Anita N. Blowers, Jill K. Doerner
Health Self-Management Among Older Prisoners: Current Understandings And Directions For Policy, Practice, And Research, Nicole Ruggiano, Andreja Lukic, Anita N. Blowers, Jill K. Doerner
Jill K Doerner
The population of aging prisoners has increased significantly over the past several decades, resulting in concerns about the criminal justice system’s ability to address the needs of prisoners and parolees with chronic health conditions. This is troubling, given the health disparities among incarcerated populations. Health self-management
has become a strategy within the community-based health care industry to improve health services and outcomes while reducing health care costs for nonincarcerated individuals with chronic conditions. However, to date little research has focused on the practice or promotion of health self-management among current and former incarcerated populations. This article highlights current understandings about …