Question

Consider the following factors that affect chronic illness when responding to your selected topic — pain, stigma, social isolation, altered mobility, or fatigue.

Topic 1

• Based on the research, which of the factors above have the greatest impact on a patient? Why?
• Contrast at least two ways the factors would affect a twelve-year-old with the way they would affect a seventy-five-year-old.

Answer 1

A chronic illness may never go away and can disrupt your life and your family’s life in a number of ways.specific symptoms, people commonly complain of invisible symptoms such as pain, fatigue, and mood disorders. Pain and fatigue may become a frequent part of the day.Pain and fatigue related to the chronic illness will affect physical activity, quality of life, sleep, work and family.

Pain vary according to age.A 75 year old person with a chronic disease, with the most common being musculoskeletal problems, chronic pain disorder, and osteoarthritis. Older age group reported pain of longer duration and more comorbidities and received pain treatment more often.older people are less tolerant of pain once it begins and has less  pain-related coping strategies than do younger people

A 12 year old younger adult obviously has better coping strategies and reports less pain when comparing with older adults,