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Effects of Disease on Families and Support Systems
Published in Gia Merlo, Kathy Berra, Lifestyle Nursing, 2023
Chronic diseases are conditions that persist for a year or more (University of Michigan, 2021). Chronic disease may limit activities of daily living and require continuing medical care. Heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, and chronic lung disease are major chronic diseases. In the United States (US), 6 in 10 adults live with one chronic disease, and 4 in 10 adults live with two or more chronic diseases.
Develop a Strategic Recovery Plan
Published in Sandra Rasmussen, Developing Competencies for Recovery, 2023
Chronic disease is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as being of long duration, generally slow in progression. The term chronic is often applied when the course of a disease lasts for more than three months. Common chronic diseases include arthritis, asthma, cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, and some viral diseases such as hepatitis C and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Mental illness and addiction are rarely included in lists of chronic diseases.
Intelligent Health Needs Gas and Guardrails
Published in Tom Lawry, Hacking Healthcare, 2022
In a value-based care model, providers are rewarded for things like successful surgical procedures, reduced side effects, symptoms, and incidences of chronic disease, and measurably healthier lives. In value-based care models, it's all about the quality of care rather than the number of services provided. It's a patient-centered approach that focuses on prevention, wellness, and improved coordination of services provided throughout the care continuum.
Validity and reliability of an Emotional Thermometer tool: an exploratory cross-sectional study
Published in Contemporary Nurse, 2023
Cheng Cheng, Cong-Yan Yang, Meng Zhou, Jie Bai, Kerry Inder, Sally Wai-Chi Chan
The prevalence of multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) remains high (Garin et al., 2016; Ward & Schiller, 2013). Evidence has shown that people with MCCs are more likely to experience poor health outcomes, unnecessary hospitalisations, and adverse drug events, and are at risk of higher morbidity and mortality rates (Bleich et al., 2015; Lee et al., 2007; Vogeli et al., 2007) than are people with one or no chronic health conditions. Psychological symptoms such as disease-specific distress, depression, and anxiety are prevalent in people with chronic diseases (Petty & Lester, 2014). These psychological symptoms impair physical function, reduce the quality of life, increase the burden of disease, and increase risk factors for disease (Pouwer, 2009). Additionally, qualitative evidence indicates that managing chronic conditions is often challenging for these people (O'Brien et al., 2011). The presence of comorbid negative psychological symptoms with chronic health conditions is significantly associated with more admissions to hospital, more rehabilitation, and increasing functional disability (Kerins et al., 2011). Thus, there is clinical importance in identifying the potential psychological symptoms among people with MCCs.
Co-creation and stroke rehabilitation: a scoping review
Published in Disability and Rehabilitation, 2023
Joshua Dobe, Louise Gustafsson, Kim Walder
The significant driver of the intensifying demand and strain on health care services is the ageing population and increased prevalence of chronic diseases [5]. A chronic disease is a condition of long duration and slow progression [13]. In contemporary healthcare literature stroke has been acknowledged as a chronic condition, rather than an isolated acute event [14]. Increased stroke prevalence is commonly associated with the ageing population, with chronic sequelae, accounting for a significant portion of the ever-increasing demand on health care systems [15]. Internationally, stroke is one of the leading causes of complex disability, with the global incidence of stroke increasing with the ageing population [14–16]. Additionally, the impact of stroke is also more frequently impacting younger adults, with incidence within this population (20–64 years) continually rising during the last 30 years [17,18]. From 1990 to 2013, the prevalence of ischaemic stroke among working-aged adults almost doubled [17,18]. This statistic highlights the substantial health and social impacts of stroke, significantly impacting populations across the breadth of adulthood.
Physical and mental fatigue in people with non-communicable chronic diseases
Published in Annals of Medicine, 2022
Anouk W. Vaes, Yvonne M. J. Goërtz, Maarten van Herck, Rosanne J. H. C. G. Beijers, Martijn van Beers, Chris Burtin, Daisy J. A. Janssen, Annemie M. W. J. Schols, Martijn A. Spruit
People with chronic diseases often consider fatigue as their most debilitating symptom, having a serious impact on daily functioning and quality of life [9]. Despite this, fatigue is often a neglected symptom in the management of chronic diseases. Because of the subjective nature of fatigue and insufficient knowledge of adequate treatment strategies for fatigue, it is often ignored or insufficiently evaluated by healthcare professionals [9]. This might, at least in part, be due to a limited understanding of the underlying causes of fatigue and the fact that fatigue-related questions are underrepresented in commonly used health status assessment tools [24]. Our data also demonstrated that less than half of the participants who reported to experience fatigue frequently discussed fatigue with their general practitioner or medical specialist. People often express feelings of misunderstanding by healthcare providers, but also by their loved ones, which can have a negative impact on their psychosocial well-being [9]. This emphasizes the need to create awareness among healthcare professionals for adequate screening and evaluating of fatigue in people with non-communicable chronic disease, which may even be more relevant in people with multi-morbidity, who have shown to have a higher risk of severe fatigue [5].