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On the Web
- Chronic Ill Net - Multimedia information source dedicated to chronic illnesses including AIDS, cancer, Persian Gulf War Syndrome, autoimmune diseases and neurological diseases.
- 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.
- Parental Advise on Coping with Chronic Illness of your Child - Tips how to explain, deal with emotions, use discipline, keep a family routine, and cope with strangers.
- 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: Forming Healthy Relationships - Advice for doctors and health workers on treatment and support of chronic ill patients.
- Yoga For Chronic Illness - Article explains how yoga helps to maintain and restore health by stretching and breathing.
- 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.
- Learning to Cope with Chronic Illness - Practical advice to patients and significant others.
- A Day in a Life with Chronic Illness - A personal account of daily events aims to promote better understanding.
- What is a Chronic Illness? - Explains to children what their ill friend or relative experiences and what they can do themselves.
Wikipedia Articles
- Chronic care - Chronic care refers to medical care which addresses preexisting or long term illness, as opposed to acute care which is concerned with short term or severe illness of brief duration. Chronic medical conditions include, but are not limited to, asthma, emphysema, chronic bronchitis, congestive heart disease, cirrhosis of the liver, hypertension and depression.
- Camp Sunshine - Located on the shore of Sebago Lake, Maine, Camp Sunshine provides children with life-threatening illnesses and their immediate families hope for the future, as well as immediate help in dealing with a child's chronic illness. The camp is currently the only program in the nation that aids in lightening the impact of a life-threatening illness on a person's entire immediate family, not just the person with the illness.
- Disability Studies Quarterly - The Society for Disability Studies (SDS) was founded in 1982 as the Section for the Study of Chronic Illness, Impairment, and Disability (SSCIID) within the Western Social Science Association. Representing the new interdisciplinary field of study, Disability studies, it became a national organization and was renamed the Society for Disability Studies in 1986.
- Ability Online - Ability Online is a Canadian online community for children and young adults facing any sort of disability (intellectual or physical), chronic illness, or other social challenge. The site offers a protected and nurturing environment where these children can overcome the social isolation often associated with having such challenges, and connect with friends, mentors, homework tutors and job search coaches.
- Bilateral cingulotomy - The bilateral cingulotomy is a brain surgery performed to treat chronic pain in cancer patients. Controversially, it is also a self-proclaimed "modern psychosurgical technique" that has replaced the lobotomy as a direct brain surgery used to alleviate mental illness such as major depression, bipolar disorder, or obsessive-compulsive disorder when the condition in question has not responded to psychotherapy, behavioral therapy, electroshock, or pharmacological treatment.