Go-To Guides


Health Guide: Living Well with Heart Disease

This interactive guide helps you understand heart disease.

Chapters include:

  • Understanding Heart Disease
  • Healthy Eating
  • Exercising More
  • Taking Medications
  • Managing Your Risk Factors
  • Your Emotional Health
  • Living with Heart Disease

Health Guide: Living Well with Heart Failure

This interactive guide helps you learn how to maintain your health after experiencing congestive heart failure.

Chapters include:

  • Understanding Heart Failure
  • Managing Symptoms
  • Following Low-Sodium Diet
  • Taking Medication
  • Living with a Chronic Condition
  • Steps for a Healthier Heart
  • Living with Heart Failure

Health Guide: Living Well with Type 2 Diabetes

This interactive guide helps you learn how to manage diabetes.

Chapters include:

  • Understanding Diabetes
  • Getting the Right Healthcare
  • Monitoring Your Blood Sugar
  • Learning about Food and Diabetes
  • Adding Activity to Your Life
  • Understanding Your Medications
  • Living with Diabetes

Health Guide: Living Well with Asthma

This interactive guide helps you understand how to control your asthma.

Chapters include:

  • Your Role in Controlling Your Asthma
  • Learning About Your Lungs
  • Controlling Your Triggers
  • Asthma Medications
  • Self-Monitoring
  • Making Treatment Work
  • Asthma and Exercise
  • Living with Asthma

Health Guide: Living Well with COPD

This interactive guide helps you learn how to manage Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Chapters include:

  • Understanding COPD
  • Breathing Retraining
  • Exercise
  • Energy Conservation
  • Emotional & Social Well-Being
  • Medications
  • Preventing Infection
  • Nutrition
  • Airway Clearance
  • Oxygen Therapy
  • Travel
  • Quitting Smoking
  • Living with COPD

Health Guide: After a Stroke

This interactive guide helps you learn how to deal with a stroke.

Chapters include:

  • Understanding Stroke
  • Recovering from a Stroke
  • Stroke and Mood
  • Risk Factors for Stroke
  • Taking Medications
  • Eating for Health
  • Getting Active
  • Quitting Smoking
  • Reconnecting with Life
  • For the Caregiver

Health Guide: After Knee Replacement

This interactive guide helps you understand life after knee replacement.

Chapters include:

  • Stepping into recovery
  • Understanding knee replacement
  • After surgery
  • Mastering the basics
  • Using a walker
  • More advanced exercises
  • Walking with crutches
  • Preparing to go home
  • Your at home program
  • Keeping your knee healthy
  • Your personal exercise program

Health Guide: After Total Hip Replacement

This interactive guide helps you understand life after total hip replacement.

Chapters include:

  • Getting back in step
  • Understanding hip replacement
  • After surgery
  • Moving safely
  • Standing and sitting
  • Walking
  • More advanced exercises
  • Preparing to go home
  • Recovering at home
  • Continuing your recovery
  • Your personal exercise program

Health Guide: Living Life to the Fullest with COPD

This interactive guide helps you understand how to live life to the fullest with COPD.

Chapters include:

  • When you can’t get enough air
  • Your treatment plan
  • COPD medications
  • Using inhalers
  • If oxygen is prescribed
  • Using oxygen safely
  • Quitting Smoking
  • Preventing infections
  • Becoming more active
  • Maintaining a healthy weight
  • Pulmonary rehabilitation

Health Guide: Managing Kidney Disease

This interactive guide helps you understand how to manage kidney disease.

Chapters include:

  • Understanding kidney disease
  • Limit certain foods and fluids
  • Exercise often
  • See your doctor
  • If you have diabetes
  • If you have high blood pressure
  • The kidney’s main role
  • Choosing future treatment
  • Finding support
  • Enjoying your life

Health Guide: Managing High Blood Pressure

This interactive guide helps you understand how to manage high blood pressure.

Chapters include:

  • Why high blood pressure matters
  • Understanding blood pressure
  • How blood pressure is measured
  • When blood pressure is too high
  • Learning about risk factors
  • Taking medications
  • Choosing a healthy diet
  • Making lifestyle changes
  • Monitoring your blood pressure