How to live with a chronic disease?
Diabetes, asthma, fibromyalgia… Living with a chronic disease on a daily basis is far from easy.
What is a chronic disease?
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), we speak of “chronic disease” in the case of a long-lasting condition that evolves over time.
It is not always easy to recognize a person with a chronic disease. Yet this type of disease is responsible for 17 million deaths worldwide each year.1. In France, it is considered that 15 million people (about 20% of the population) are affected by a chronic disease.2 compared to 30% of the population in Canada3.
More or less serious and disabling depending on the case, it can be diabetes, heart disease, cancer, stroke, high blood pressure, polyarthritis, multiple sclerosis, Crohn’s disease, Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s, etc …