Chronic Illness and its Social and Emotional Effects

When you face illness, your whole life completely changes. However, in current times, when life expectancy has risen so much, it’s quite common for people to live with a chronic illness. In fact, according to the World Health Organization (2016), life expectancy has increased by five years since 2000. This is largely due to advances in medicine and medical research. In many instances, the treatments that exist are merely palliative. This means that they don’t completely cure the disease, but the patient manages to live with it. However, living with a chronic disease will have negative effects on their day-to-day…