Allow me to empower you: the wisdom of self-care

What started as an intervention has become a way of being for Fiona Jones and her colleagues. Fiona started with her clinical training as a physical therapist, which meant doing things “to” patient-persons. When she moved from hospital settings to home settings, she began to appreciate the variety of PT practices people had come up with on their own. She began to wonder, “what if we combined forces?”

Fiona shares her insights with Paul into the language and practices that help people navigate the continuum of support for self-care

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Guests

Fiona Jones

Professor, Rehabilitation Research, St George’s University of London and Kingston University. Founder and CEO, Bridges Self-Management Limited


Supplementary materials

Readings

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Clarke, D., Gombert-Waldron, K., Honey, S., Cloud, G., Harris, R., Macdonald, A., McKevitt, C., Robert, G. and Jones, F. (2021) Clarke D, Gombert- Waldron K, Honey S, et al. Co- designing organisational improvements and interventions to increase inpatient activity in four stroke units in England: a mixed- methods process evaluation using normalisation process theory. BMJ Open 2021;11:e042723. doi:10.1136/ bmjopen-2020-042723