Benefits of Social Services for Persons with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Virginija Kondratavičienė, Aistė Jancevičiūtė Abstract Rheumatic joint diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis are recognized as the second most common diseases in causing disability. Rheumatoid arthritis affects more than 12 thousand of the population in Lithuania. Rheumatoid arthritis with increasing age of the population and the increasing number of patients with the diagnosis of the disease…