chronic care

chronically debilitating disease

perform psychological interventions for patients with chronic illnesses | perform psychological interventions for persons with chronic diseases | provide psychological interventions to chronically ill people | provide psychological interventions to chronically ill persons

Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control

chronic disease | long-term disease | long-term illness | protracted disease

chronic illness [ chronic disease ]

chronic disease

chronic disease with a multifactorial genetic component

acute medicine | short term care | acute care | care in acute phase of illness

geriatric medicine | preventative methods in healthcare of elderly people | geriatrics | health care of elderly people

– Developing new innovative policies and business models for more integrated health and social care systems for the elderly, improving home-based and self-care; as well as tailoring and deploying on a large scale new innovative (including ICT-based) solutions for long-term care of the elderly such as chronic disease management.

Nevertheless, as people live longer, it is expected that there will be increasing numbers of older people with a severe disability and in need of long-term care[6].As multiple chronic conditions are more prevalent in old age, this will have implications for care provision.

30. Draws the attention of the Commission to the increased number of workers affected by chronic illness in the workforce; takes the view that accessible and safe jobs should be available for people affected by terminal illnesses, chronic and long-term conditions and disability; urges the Member States to focus on retention and integration of people affected by chronic diseases as well as to support reasonable adaptation of workplaces, which will ensure a timely return to work; calls on the Commission to promote integration and rehabilitation measures for people with disabilities and to support Member States’ efforts by raising awaren ...[+++]ess and identifying and sharing good practices on accommodations and adjustments in the workplace; urges Eurofound to further examine and analyse the employment opportunities and the degree of employability of people with chronic diseases;

3.2. Chronic diseases: support European cooperation and networking on preventing and improving the response to chronic diseases including cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, operating within a gender-sensitive framework and taking into account the differences between disease processes in women and men, by sharing knowledge, good practice, promoting education, developing guidelines regarding the underlying environmental factors of chronic diseases and developing joint activities on prevention, including with regard to environmental risk factors; . follow-up work already undertaken; set up a European chronic disease information system with comparable data; support chronic disease screening and ear ...[+++]ly diagnosis of chronic diseases, including voluntary accreditation mechanisms; support the development of European guidelines for prevention and early diagnosis where major inequalities exist.