Traiettorie di malattia e chronic illness

Illness trajectories and chronic illness. Illness trajectory is central to Strauss' thought. It's a grounded concept using to reach aspects of the chronic illness requiring above all the understanding of its form and duration. Moreover, it's a concept through which the researcher analyses the chronic illness management taking into account three lines of work: the biographical work, the daily life work and the illness work. The three lines of work are carried out, according by Strauss, by all the care actors and by patients in a complex articulation of mutual expectations and of identification of who-when-why does what.

The article considers the application of this concept at the paediatric field where it's believed that it could open up new and interesting exploration plans; moreover, the article applies the concept to the analysis of national programmatic documents related to the long-term care, such as the 2016 National Chronicity Plan, thus revealing the modernity and the analytical potentialities of Strauss' thought. [Publisher's text].