states, the self-care requisites arise from the disease state and the measures used in its diagnosis and treatment. To meet the demands of diseased/injured states, the self-care requisites must be made into action components of the self-care system. Therapeutic self-care demand at any time describes factors in the patient or their environment which must be held steady within a range for the life, health and well-being of the patient, and the technology of choice for controlling or changing the patient or the environment.
Self-care agency is an individual's ability to meet their continuing requirements for purposeful action to regulate their own functioning and development (Taylor, 193). The person who engages in the action is the agent. Those who accept and fulfill the responsibility for someone else's health and well-being are dependant-care agents. Self-care deficit is the relationship between human properties of therapeutic self-care demand and self-care agency which is not operating efficiently enough to meet the requirements
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