• Self care – practice of activities that individual initiates and perform on their own behalf in maintaining life ,health and well being
• Self care agency – is a human ability which is "the ability for engaging in self care" -conditioned by age developmental state, life experience sociocultural orientation health and available resources
• Therapeutic self care demand – "totality of self care actions to be performed for some duration in order to meet self care requisites by using valid methods and related sets of operations and actions"
• Self care requisites - action directed towards provision of self care. 3 categories of self care requisites are-
o Universal self care requisites
o Developmental self care requisites
o Health deviation self care requisites