Valuable support
A disability or a severe illness can initially turn a person’s life on its head. This is not only true for the person directly affected by the disability but also the person’s friends and relatives. That’s why people who live with a disabled person or who has direct contact with someone who has a disability will find a lot of valuable information and tips at MyHandicap.
How should one approach someone who has recently suffered from a disability? How much help does he require, without him feeling imposed upon? In the section Courage and Motivation you will find portraits of people with various disabilities, who master their life situation impressively. These insights can help you to better understand life from the perspective of someone with a disability.
If you need more information about disabilities, you will find it in the section called Health and Wellbeing. There you can browse through a comprehensive collection of knowledge about Diagnosis, Therapy as well as Aids and Appliances.
Helping with compassion and understanding
You would like to help the disabled person, but you just don’t know how? Then why don’t you have a look through, How I can really help – the checklist for successfully supporting disabled friends or relatives. There you will find valuable advice about how you can optimally support your loved one without imposing on them.
Author: hia - 08/2008
Translation: PmcC- MyH
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