Living with a chronic deseases!
- and the struggle that comes with it -
Chronic diseases are defined broadly as conditions that
last 1 year or more and require ongoing medical attention or limit
activities of daily living or both.
Chronic diseases are mostly characterised by: complex causes many risk,
factors long latency periods, a long illness functional impairment or
disability.
Most chronic diseases do not fix themselves and are generally not cured
completely. Some can be immediately life-threatening, such as heart
disease and stroke.
Others linger over time and need intensive management. Most chronic
diseases persist throughout a person's life, but are not always the
cause of death, such as arthritis.
This page was created by Kimberly Rileit