Dealing and coping with Chronic Illness in general, advise to patients, relatives, caretakers, health workers. Only lists information not linked to a specific disease. Chronic illness means lifelong in duration, treatable but rarely cured completely, and typically requires persistent self-management behaviors. Synonyms to chronic illness: long-term disease, chronic condition.
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  • Learning to Cope with Chronic Illness
    Practical advice to patients and significant others.
  • Chronic Disease: Forming Healthy Relationships
    Advice for doctors and health workers on treatment and support of chronic ill patients.
  • Coping with Chronic Illness
    An academic paper discusses illness in terms of stages, with a description of each in terms of its relevance to patients.
  • Expert Patients Programme for Long-term Patients
    Self-management course for confidence, skills and knowledge to manage chronic health conditions. Provides newsletter, explanation of program, people's views.
  • Coping with a Chronic Illness in your Family
    Advice to family members, including communication, financial matters, independence and taking charge.
  • Chronic Illness Coping
    Lists articles including lessons from Christopher Reeve, treatment of whole person, psychological control, and coping techniques.
  • Learning to Live with a Chronic Condition
    Patient advice on communication with the health team, deciding on a treatment plan, and minimizing costs. From the Lifepath Information Series.
  • Preventing Disability in the Elderly With Chronic Disease
    Discusses outcome of patient self management program. Education and lifestyle changes improve health, preserve functions and reduce costs. Also in PDF (published in 2002).
  • Center for Research on Chronic Illness
    Current research by the Carolina School of Nursing, pilot projects, publications on specific diseases as well as in general on preventing and managing chronic illness in vulnerable people.
  • Chronic Illness: Acceptance Is the First Step Toward Healing
    Short description of the day to day acceptance process.
  • Living with Chronic Illness
    Personal advice on making adjustments and maintaining hope.
  • Coping with Chronic Illness
    The Fathers Network on how to deal with physical, emotional and spiritual aspects. Applies to anyone with a longterm disease.
  • Yoga For Chronic Illness
    Article explains how yoga helps to maintain and restore health by stretching and breathing.
  • Stanford Self-Management Programs
    Center develops, evaluates, and disseminates community-based, peer-led, programs for people with all kinds of chronic diseases. Part of School of Medicine, Stanford University, California.
  • Chronic Disease Management
    Model based on cooperation between providers to improve patient health and outcome. The Calgary Health Region also advises on regional strategy, community care coordinators, and patient class details.
  • Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice and Policy
    A peer-reviewed Journal by the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in the United States. Contains essays, original research, special topics, case studies. Also available as PDF.
  • Chronic Disease Prevention
    Overview by National Center (USA) offers statistics, state programs, risk surveillance and risk factors per state.
  • Chronic Illness Tips
    A personal account of strategies for daily living.
  • Living with Chronic Illness and Disease
    Personal perspective on living with chronic disease. Articles cover getting through each day, relaxations, tips, work, stories.
  • Living with Long Term Illness
    Tips and ideas on dealing with a chronic condition in daily life. Personal site.
  • Illness, Disability and Social Inclusion
    Evaluates policies on education, social security, employment, anti-discrimination, and independence. From the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.
  • A Day in a Life with Chronic Illness
    A personal account of daily events aims to promote better understanding.
  • Managing your Chronic Illness
    British Columbia's patient information with links to programs.
  • Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness
    Handbook gives short, practical advice how to handle serious illness and dying.
  • Chronic Disease Surveillance in Canada
    Background paper also proposes multi-partnered data base renewal (2003).
  • Poem, Pain Management, Chronic Illness
    Poem about coping with pain using relaxation and imagery.
  • Improving Chronic Illness Care
    Research and resources, including a model to promote interaction between patient and care givers. Essential elements are the community, self-management support, decision support and clinical information systems.
  • Palliative Care Council of South Australia
    Resources to comfort, relieve pain and distress for people who are dying, and to support parents, families and friends in approaching death and healing grief.
  • Chronic Conditions
    Advice on managing the health team, staying as healthy as possible, trying complementary therapies, maintaining a sense of humor, working at being optimistic.
  • Chronic Disease Management
    British Columbia resources for physicians, patients and researchers. Includes success stories, self-management program, reports, research and Chronic Care Model.
  • Report of the Working Group on Long-Term Care
    US Department of Labor, Advisory Council Report to recommend policy changes and education on broad scope of findings.
  • Household Management Questions for Others with Chronic Illness
    Practical advice on adjusting expectations, cleaning, time management and recommended books. Short thread in The New Homemaker.
  • Chronic Health Conditions not a Barrier to Successful Aging
    Advice on 'successful aging' with good management of several chronic conditions by HealthLink, the Medical College of Wisconsin.
  • Health Action Network
    A volunteer non-profit organization helping to rehabilitate people with chronic mental or physical illness into the community. Includes details of training and resources.
  • Ten Steps for Coping with a Chronic Condition
    Harvard Health Publication Letter. Patient oriented advice.
  • Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases
    Combined World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization expert report on prevention of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, dental diseases and osteoporosis.
  • Managing Long Term Conditions (Chronic Disease Management)
    A National Primary and Care Trust Development Funds program aimed to produce personalized care plans involving all medical and associated disciplines. No longer updated, it still contains valuable information for health care professionals.
  • Patient Self-Management - Chronic Disease Care
    Overview of research and publications showing evidence patient self-management interventions lead to improved health status, increased patient satisfaction and reductions in hospital and emergency room costs, listed by the Californian Health Care Foundation.
  • Next steps after your diagnosis: finding information and support
    Consumer health information for people with a disease or chronic condition on how to obtain reliable treatment information by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (USA).
  • It's Your Life
    E-book on chronic disease management available for free online reading or download.
  • Living with Chronic Illness and Pain
    Explains how lifestyle changes can be effective in self-managing a condition. From Men's Health Peer Education.
  • Chronic Disease: Prevention and Management
    Calgary Health Region to host its second international conference from October 29 to November 1, 2007. Registration opens October 2006.
  • Chronic Illness Alliance Inc.
    A representative body for Australian organizations. Promotes details of campaigns and activities, and offers news, articles and information.
  • Coping with Chronic Illness
    Offers links to patient information and publications by the National Institutes of Health.
  • Chronic Illness
    Journal providing a forum in which researchers from a wide range of disciplines, clinicians, policy makers, and people living with chronic illness come together to clarify the common principles underlying the experience and management of chronic illness. Has current and past issues.
  • Health Issues Unmasked
    A weblog dedicated to exploring the issues behind the diagnoses, the statistics, and behind the headlines on chronic illness, health policy, and complementary and alternative medicine. By a journalist, Jacqueline L. Jones.
  • Biotoxin Illness
    Ritchie Shoemaker, MD and his research team share new peer-reviewed medical research and clinical treatment protocols along with an online screening test for biotoxin illnesses such as CFIDS, Fibro and Lyme.

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  • Chronic (medicine) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    URL : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_(medical)
    ... a disease or causative condition may depend on the disease being chronic, and ... Categories: Medical terms | Chronic illness. Views. Article. Discussion ...[2008/11/12]
  • HealthInForum.org - Conditions and Diseases, Chronic Illness - Dealing ...
    URL : healthinforum.org/Conditions-and-Diseases-Chronic-Illness-cat-79-1....
    Conditions and Diseases\ Chronic Illness Records 1-10. Health - Medical ... Category: Conditions and Diseases\ Chronic Illness. Location: Dillon, Colorado ...[2008/11/24]
  • Your Child | Children with Chronic Conditions
    URL : www.med.umich.edu/1libr/yourchild/chronic.htm
    It is important to help the teen to gain control of their disease management. ... Chronic illness doesn't just affect the person with the condition. ...[2008/11/01]
  • Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Chronic Conditions
    URL : www.ihi.org/IHI/Topics/ChronicConditions
    ... good care for people with chronic conditions, there is a gap between ... Chronic disease management: What will it take to improve care for chronic illness? ...[2008/11/12]
  • HealingWell.com
    URL : www.healingwell.com
    Resources on diseases, disorders, syndromes, and chronic illness. ... Diseases & Conditions. Forums & Chat. Video Webcasts. Clinical Resources ...[2008/11/28]
  • ScienceDaily: Chronic Illness News
    URL : www.sciencedaily.com/news/health_medicine/chronic_illness
    Diseases and Conditions. Chronic Illness. Master Gene Plays Key Role In Blood Sugar Levels ... Chronic Illness. Today's Healthcare. Diseases and Conditions ...[2008/11/28]
  • Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Tools
    URL : www.ihi.org/IHI/Topics/ChronicConditions/AllConditions/Tools
    ... for Healthcare Improvement and Improving Chronic Illness Care, a national ... Health Disparities Collaboratives Training Manual for Chronic Conditions ...[2008/11/02]
  • Living with Chronic Brain-Related Illness
    URL : aarp.org/health/.../diseases/living_with_chronic_brainrelated_illness
    ... teeth, or gum disease) or gastrointestinal conditions (such as heartburn, ... Other Brain Health : Brain Diseases Articles. Chronic Illness and the Brain ...[2008/11/25]
  • Home : Partnership For Solutions
    URL : www.partnershipforsolutions.org
    Heart Disease: The Impact of Multiple Chronic Conditions [Download] ... Learn from leading experts about implications of chronic conditions and policy responses. ...[2008/03/20]
  • Dealing With a Health Condition
    URL : kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/problems/deal_chronic_illness.html
    If you suffer from a chronic illness or know someone who does, you know it can be anything but fun. But you have the opportunity to be better informed and more ...[2008/10/03]
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