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Question: The impact of chronic illness
After reading Chapter 11, please select a celebrity who is living with or has lived with Alzheimer’s Disease, Diabetes, Asthma, or HIV/AIDS.
Discuss the impact of the disease on the life of the celebrity as well as those who around him/her. Please be sure to share how this chronic illness has been diagnosed, treated, and managed. Be sure to share a link to more information about the celebrity you selected.
Directions
Everyone is addressing all the components of the discussion
Week 6: Living with Chronic Disease
Topic Overview
Can you image waking up tomorrow to find out that you (or a loved one) have been diagnosed with a chronic illness? How will you tell your family and how will interactions with family members change? How will you handle the pain of the disease? What types of treatment will you seek? Maybe some of you are currently managing a chronic illness or helping a loved one to cope with their chronic illness, but even if you aren’t, you will be living with a chronic illness at some point in the future as part of the aging process.
Module Objectives
At the end of this module, you should be able to via class conversation and health journal:
Discuss the impact that chronic illness has on the patient and the family
Examine the impact of Alzheimer’s disease.
Investigate the elements of adjusting to diabetes and the impact of asthma.
Analyze the management of HIV infection.
Article 1: Petrie, Keith J. & Weinman, J. (2012). Patients’ perception of their illness: The dynamo of volition in health care. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 21(1), 60-65.
Article 2: Smith, D.M., Loewenstein, G., Jankovich, A. & Ubel, P.A. (2009). Happily hopeless: Patients’ adjustment to permanent, but not temporary disability. Health Psychology, 28(6), 787–791.
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