Abstract
One of the greatest challenges to lifestyle medicine is patient adherence. Lifestyle diseases inherently require lifetime prevention and treatment. Therefore, adherence to lifestyle medicine recommendations must also be long-term. Long-term adherence implies that a routine incorporating health recommendations has been developed. Instead of focusing on the immediacy of adherence in lifestyle changes, health care providers could consider helping patients develop a routine to slowly incorporate those changes. This perspective may enable greater long-term adherence to lifestyle change recommendations.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 142-144 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 1 2019 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2018 The Author(s).
Keywords
- adherence
- habit
- long term
- maintenance
- personalization
- structure