"Shingles can be a very painful and long-lasting illness," said Dr. Myron J. Levin, a professor of medicine and pediatrics at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, who is overseeing the study.
Examples are the Giraff (www.giraff.org) advanced in the ExCITE project [75], AVA (www.irobot.com/ava) and Luna [76], assisting needy persons in their everyday movements (www.aal-domeo.eu), self-management of long-lasting illness [77], comfort and safety as in the cases of Florence [78] and Robo M.D [79], and unification in an environment controlled by smart applications [80].
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a long-lasting illness with significant effects on the patient's family, social, and work life [ 1, 2].
All versions of the KINDL questionnaire are supplemented with a "disease-module" consisting of a filter question and six items about possible long-lasting illness or current hospital admission.
Anyone who had not answered this follow-up question was classified as 'no', except respondents who had not answered the first question on having any long-lasting illness or injury, who were set to missing.
Caregivers' uneasiness increases as patients' conditions worsen, adding to their increasing cognitive problems, the onset of behavioral symptoms, and the consequent reduction of independence in daily life; higher levels of anxiety are present among caregivers of patients with a long-lasting illness.
Experiencing a long-lasting illness or caring for someone with a long-lasting illness.
More than half of the children before the beginning of pertussis were in contact with persons suffering from long lasting cough illness in the family, school or day-care center.
In addition, at one year, patients were only able to walk 66% of the predicted distance during a 6-minute walk test [ 10], further supporting the long lasting impact of critical illness.
The psychological impact of critical illness can be long lasting, affecting both patients and their families and impacting on quality of life following hospital discharge [2].
Even with successful treatment the effects of sepsis can be long lasting, with survivors having a significantly lower quality of life than before their illness [ 10].
