Long Term Conditions
Reading has a positive impact on health and wellbeing. We have a small selection of books endorsed by health professionals which can help you understand and manage a number of common long term health conditions. These books are in no way a replacement for speaking to a health professional so if you are worried or need help please do seek medical assistance.
Allergies and Intolerances
Experience/Fiction
Bubble Wrap Boy by Phil Earle
Diabetes
Factual Self Help Books
How to live well with diabetes: a comprehensive guide to taking control of your life with diabetes
Understanding Type 2 diabetes: fewer highs, fewer lows, better health
Heart Conditions/Stroke
Factual Self Help Books
Rebuilding life after stroke by Reg Morris et al
Caring
Factual Self Help Books
Dementia
Factual Self Help Books
First steps to living with dementia by Simon Atkins
Experience/Fiction
Where memories go: why dementia changes everything by Sally Magnusson
Cancer
Factual Self Help Books
Experience/Fiction
Talk to the headscarf by Emma Hannigan
There's something I've been dying to tell you by Lynda Bellingham
Disability
Factual Self Help Books
Arthritis: The essential guide by Gill Carrick
Sight loss: the essential guide by Antonia Chitty
Experience/Fiction
Sound: stories of hearing lost and found by Bella Bathurst
The diving-bell and the butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby