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| Coping with Chronic Illness - Speech for Men |
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Personal story on how to deal with physical, emotional and spiritual aspects; applies to anybody with longterm disease.
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Diabetes : dLife - For Your Diabetes has as its mission to engage, educate and inspire people with type 1 diabetes or type 2 diabetes and their caregivers. As the leading diabetes site, dLife provides more than 80,000 pages of diabetes related information; 8,500 diabetic recipes; 400 broadcast quality videos; more than 100,000 forum topics; expert Q&A; a team of diabetes bloggers; and more.
Dealing with Illness and Disability : Entry on Council, Community and Government support by the London Borough of Hackney. Related to Jobs, Leisure, Transport, Hospitals, Meals, Physical Diabilities, Allowances.
Chronic Illness Coping : Lists articles online including lessons from Christopher Reeve, treatment of whole person, psychological control, and coping techniques.
Learning to Cope with Chronic Illness : Senior Citizens practical advise to patients and significant others.
Coping with Chronic Illness - for Families : Advise for family members, including communication, financial matters, dependance and independance and more resources.
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 Chronic Illness - for Counselors : Explanation of defense mechanisms or coping styles to counselors of patients.
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
Coping with Chronic Ilness and Depression : Advise to recognize depression and when to consult the doctor.
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.
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