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identify factors that affect the level of impact of chronic illness on individual and family life cycles

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Chronic Illness FrameworkExplains how chronic illness affects the family

Has three major elements:

- Illness types (onset, course of the disease, outcome, and the degree of incapacitation of the family member)

- Time phases of the illness (initial diagnosis, long chronic illness day to day adjustment or terminal phase)

- Family functioning (demands of managing the illness and the family strengths and vulnerabilities)

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Chronic Illness FrameworkExplains how chronic illness affects the family
Has three major elements:
- Illness types (onset, course of the disease, outcome, and the degree of incapacitation of the family member)
- Time phases of the illness (initial diagnosis, long chronic illness day to day adjustment or terminal phase)
- Family functioning (demands of managing the illness and the family strengths and vulnerabilities)
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