Therapeutic self-care demand
Therapeutic self-care demand consists of the summation of care measures necessary at specific times or over a duration of time to meet all of an individual’s known self-care requisites, particularized for existent conditions and circumstances by methods appropriate for the following:
• Controlling or managing factors identified in the requisites, the values of which are regulatory of human functioning (sufficiency of air, water, and food)
• Fulfilling the activity element of the requisites (maintenance, promotion, prevention, and provision) (Orem, 2001,