Living with Chronic Illness : The Experience of Patients and Their Families (Hardcover)

Introduction 1. The quality of life of stroke patients and their carers 2. Reconstructing lives: negotiating the meaning of multiple sclerosis 3. Striking balances: living with Parkinson’s disease 4. Meanings at risk: the experience of arthritis 5. Wives of heart attack patients: the stress of caring 6. Coming to terms with diabetes: coping strategies and non-compliance 7. Accommodating epilepsy in families 8. The experience of stigma: living with rectal cancer 9. Living with renal failure on home haemodialysis 10. The experience of psoriasis under treatment Conclusion