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Learning to Cope with Chronic Illness
Senior Citizens practical advise to patients and significant others.
http://seniors-site.com/coping/chronic.html
Chronic Disease Requires Doctor - Patient Relationship
Advise for doctors and health workers on treatment and support chronic ill patients.
http://www.buchholzmedgroup.com/articles/PDF/Chronic.pdf
Effectiveness of Self Management with Chronic Disease
Paper discusses core skills, use in educational programs, effects on health status, key ingredients for more efficacy.
http://www.chronicdisease.health.gov.au/pdfs/lorig.pdf
Coping with Chronic Illness - for Counselors
Explanation of defense mechanisms or coping styles to counselors of patients.
http://www.brandeis.edu/pcc/coping.html
Coping with Chronic Illness Stages
Paper discusses illness as a process with stages: crisis, isolation, anger, reconstruction, intermittent depression, and renewal. Advice on how to deal with new situation. Adapted from "After The Diagnosis" by Dr. JoAnn LeMaistre
http://www.alpineguild.com/COPING%20WITH%20CHRONIC%20ILLNESS.html
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.
http://www.expertpatients.nhs.uk/
Coping with Chronic Ilness and Depression
Advise to recognize depression and when to consult the doctor.
http://www.mamsi.com/s/yh/copingwithchronicillness.pdf
Coping with Chronic Illness - for Families
Advise for family members, including communication, financial matters, dependance and independance and more resources.
http://www.eldercareadvocates.com/pages/art22.htm
Chronic Condition Self-Management Literature
Lists 330 books and articles, dated September 2003.
http://som.flinders.edu.au/FUSA/CCTU/Chronic%20Condition%20Self.pdf
Chronic Illness Coping
Lists articles online including lessons from Christopher Reeve, treatment of whole person, psychological control, and coping techniques.
http://www.mindpub.com/topic16.htm
Learning to Live with a Chronic Condition
Patient advise to communicate with health team; to learn; to decide on a treatment plan; to minimize costs. Lifepath Information Series.
https://www.mylifepath.com/producer/documentlibrary/MR15300.pdf?sec=medsup&pg=help
Chronic Disease Prevention - Overview
National Center (U.S.) describes statistics, (state) programs, risk surveillance, risk factors per state, accomplishments, and publications.
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/overview.htm
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).
http://www.ahcpr.gov/research/elderdis.htm
Ten Steps for Coping with a Chronic Condition
Harvard Health Publication Letter. Patient oriented advise.
http://www.hmiworld.org/past_issues/Jan_Feb_2004/around_chronic.html
Chronic Conditions in Healthy Aging, SeniorNet
Patient advise on managing the health team, staying as healthy as possible, join a support group, try complementary therapies, rethink limitations, maintain a sense of humor, work at being optimistic.
http://www.seniornet.org/php/default.php?ClassOrgID=5403&PageID=5541
Chronic Care Model
Essential elements are the community, the health system, self-management support, delivery system design, decision support and clinical information systems.
http://www.improvingchroniccare.org/change/model/components.html
Center for Research on Chronic Illness, Carolina School of Nursing
Current research, pilot projects, publications on specific diseases as well as in general on preventing and managing chronic illness in vulnarable people.
http://nursing.unc.edu/crci/
Shared Vision of Parents and Pediatricians about Unmet Needs of Children With Chronic Health Conditions
Complete article (also as PDF) on longterm needs, financial and medical planning.
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/105/1/S2/277
Chronic Illness: Acceptance is First Step towards Healing
Short description of day by day acceptance process.
http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/news/Oct1999/AcceptingChronicIllness.html
Living with Chronic Illness
Advise on adjustments to patients, and short comment on hope.
http://aces_autoimmune.tripod.com/copingb.htm
Coping with Chronic Illness - Speech for Men
Personal story on how to deal with physical, emotional and spiritual aspects; applies to anybody with longterm disease.
http://www.fathersnetwork.org/647.html?page=647&SESSION=ab227735c199fab81f0a5e757533e8d4&s=0
Poem, Pain Management, Chronic Illness
Poem about coping with pain using relaxation and imagery.
http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/fleitas/pain.html
Yoga For Chronic Illness
Yoga helps to maintain and restore health by tretching and breathing, short article.
http://www.cancerlinks.com/Yoga/illness.html
Self-Management Programs - Stanford Patient Education Research Center
Center develops, evaluates, and disseminates community-based, peer-led, self-management programs for people with all kinds of chronic diseases. Part of School of Medicine, California.
http://patienteducation.stanford.edu/programs/
Chronic Disease Management - Calgary Health Region
Chronic Care Model based on cooperation between providers to improve patient health and outcome. Describes model, literature overview, regional strategy, community care coordinators, current projects, key program components, patient class details, newsletter.
http://www.calgaryhealthregion.ca/cdm/index.html
Chronic Disease Surveillance in Canada
Background paper presents overview and proposes multi-partnered data base renewal (2003).
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/pphb-dgspsp/csc-ccs/pdf/hscchronic_disease_surveillance_background_paper_e.pdf
Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice and Policy
On line Public Health Research 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.
http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/
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