There are many different people living with chronic illness and disability, most are able to live on their own or with minimal assistant. In addition, both chronic illness and disability does not show discrimination, it affect the young, middle age and the old. Chronic Illness is the condition or health problem with symptoms or disability requiring health care management for three months or longer (Bare, Cheever, Hinkle & Smeltzer, 2010). On the other hand, disability is limitation in performance or function in everyday activities if he/she has difficulty talking, hearing, seeing, walking, climbing stairs, lifting or carrying objects, performing activity of daily living (ADLs), doing school work, or working at a job (Bare, Cheever, Hinkle & Smeltzer, 2010). Base on the reading, one can see why both chronic illness and disability are sometime used interchangeably. The reason being that chronic illness can lead to disability and disability can lead to chronic illness. For example, a motor vehicle accident patient may develop chronic back pain, which can lead to the inability to perform ADLs.
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There are many issues that prevent or interfere with patients and family in achieving the self-management goals. For instance, access is far from guaranteed. Availability of appropriate preparation so that clients and families are sufficiently competent at self-management is necessary to avoid harm (LeBlanc and Jacelon, 2016). Also, there is the assumption that education is non invasive, not requiring formal informed consent (LeBlanc and Jacelon, 2016). So the question becomes who is responsible for these individual to gain access and provide the necessary information to be successful in managing their care. The answer we all are from the doctor, social worker, nurses and etc, whatever role one plays, they should sufficient in their
There are many issues that prevent or interfere with patients and family in achieving the self-management goals. For instance, access is far from guaranteed. Availability of appropriate preparation so that clients and families are sufficiently competent at self-management is necessary to avoid harm (LeBlanc and Jacelon, 2016). Also, there is the assumption that education is non invasive, not requiring formal informed consent (LeBlanc and Jacelon, 2016). So the question becomes who is responsible for these individual to gain access and provide the necessary information to be successful in managing their care. The answer we all are from the doctor, social worker, nurses and etc, whatever role one plays, they should sufficient in their