Our virtual support groups offer a safe space for sharing your experiences, triumphs, defeats, challenges, fears, frustrations, overcoming, and joys as well as being informed on the latest tips, strategies, and available resources.
Support Group Offerings:
Family Caregiver Support - often face many challenges while providing care for a loved one. Family caregivers are unpaid and provide a wide range of care from dressing, feeding, bathing to cooking, cleaning, transportation, finances, health care and medication management, and so much more including emotional support and companionship. This often leads to stress, feeling burdened, and depression. Family caregivers are spouses, children, relatives, friends, and neighbors. Family caregivers are not only those who provided 24-hour live-in care, but also those who live outside of the home of the care recipient and provide part-time care, stopping by and/or calling multiple times per week.
Stroke Survivor Support - Stroke is the leading cause of disability in the U.S. Residual deficits can lead to physical disabilities such as difficulty walking, the inability to walk, impaired or decreased ability to perform self-care activities. Many stroke survivors have difficulty with communication such as impaired speech, language output, difficulty understanding others, impaired thinking abilities and also difficulty swallowing. The disabilities following a stroke can lead to stress, anxiety, depression, and isolation.
Concussion/Traumatic Brain Injury Support Group - Brain injuries, caused by a blow to the head or violent shaking, impact how your brain functions whether the impact is mild or severe. It can often leave the individual with deficits that are not visible to the naked eye. Following a brain injury, one can suffer from difficulty concentrating, memory problems, personality changes, irritability, difficulty sleeping, sensitivity to noise and light, psychological problems and even depression. Other effects include tiredness, dazed feeling or appearance, balance difficulties, trouble managing emotions and more.
Health Adjustment - many people experiencing new health diagnoses have difficulty adjusting to their new normal leading to stress, anxiety, and often a resistance to change.
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