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Sense making process in defining health for people with chronic illnesses and disabilities
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Therapeutic Recreation Journal
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July 1, 2002
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Although health is an important concept in therapeutic recreation (TR), the examination of health concepts in the lives of people with chronic and persistent illnesses and disabilities has received relatively little attention in the TR literature. The critical question asked in this paper is that, is it possible to have health and at the same time have an incurable illness or disability? One avenue for exploring such a question is to consider the concept of health as multi-faceted. Although a facet of health such as functional health may be defined in terms of physical and social functions, another important consideration is to examine how people make sense of their illness and health. The ...
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