ABSTRACT
Trajectory is used to denote the complex process of living with and managing chronic conditions. The subconcepts represent its properties and are the categories that have emerged as being related and relevant to the management process. Chronic conditions may appear at any age and span a lifetime. The vision of that potential course is referred to as the trajectory projection. The management plan, developed to gain some measure of control over that potentially uncertain course, is termed the trajectory scheme. A wide range of social, economic, organizational, and psychological conditions bear upon the illness management process to either facilitate or hinder it. The illness and its management can affect people’s biographies and everyday lives. In turn, how persons choose to manage their biographical and everyday lives in light of the illness circumstances can ultimately affect the illness course through the management process. Resources in the form of time, technology, money, and manpower are needed to manage.
