ALL Institute: Assisting Living & Learning

ALL member, Rebecca Maguire has an article published on RTE's Brainstorm website: 

Fears, hopes and expectations: How thinking about the future can help us cope with illness

Opinion: Identifying ways to increase optimism and other positive psychological traits such as resilience may offer a means of helping people cope better with illness. 

Living with any illness, especially a chronic illness, can be challenging. One may have to battle with numerous symptoms, side effects, and impairments on a regular basis, all of which can make carrying out even the simplest task difficult...

Read the full article here:  
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2019/0605/1053595-how-thinking-about-the-future-can-help-us-cope-with-illness/