Question: The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, and 4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answer.
Self-management is thus defined as the ‘individual’s ability to manage the symptoms, treatment, physical and psychosocial consequences and lifestyle changes inherent in living with a chronic condition’.
Most people with progressive diseases like dementia prefer to have control over their own lives and health-care for as long as possible.
Having control means, among other things, that patients themselves perform self-management activities.
Supporting people in decisions and actions that promote self-management is called self-management support requiring a cooperative relationship between the patient, the family, and the professionals.
This is an easy question. Statement 2 talks about people with progressive diseases wanting to have control over their own lives. This should be followed by statement 3 as it mentions what ‘having control’ means i.e. self-management activities. Statement 1 follows after that as it defines ‘self-management’. Statement 4 is the last sentence of the paragraph as it mentions how self-management support can promote it.