Identify factors that affect the level of impact of chronic illness on individual and family life cycles

Chronic Illness FrameworkExplains how chronic illness affects the family  

Has three major elements:

- Illness types (onset, course of the disease, outcome, and the degree of incapacitation of the family member)

- Time phases of the illness (initial diagnosis, long chronic illness day to day adjustment or terminal phase)

- Family functioning (demands of managing the illness and the family strengths and vulnerabilities)

they can lead to suîcîde

so yes

answer///cannot be totally predicted;