Meeting the challenge of chronic illness seeks to shake us from our collective acquiescence by sounding an alarm to the coming crisis of a population that is ageing with chronic illness a care system that is marked by disparate and uncoordinated health services and costs that are rising at unsustainable rates. The writer shows how challenging it is to live with a chronic illness during the covid 19 pandemic with medical tests and treatment delayed issues with virtual visits and more. Meeting the challenge of chronic illness seeks to shake us from our collective acquiescence by sounding an alarm to the coming crisis of a population that is ageing with chronic illness a care system that is marked by disparate and uncoordinated health services and costs that are rising at unsustainable rates. Although we now live in a world dominated by chronic conditions health care is still organized around a commitment to treating acute illnesses meeting the challenge of chronic illness examines current deficiencies in chronic illness care and explores ways to improve it. 0001 subject meeting the challenge living with chronic illness keywords meeting the challenge living with chronic illness created date 10 13 2020 73104 pm meeting the challenge of chronic illness examines current deficiencies in chronic illness care and explores ways to improve it addressing the challenges of shifting from the primacy of