Caregivers.com Offers a directory of
support groups for caregivers.
Caregiver Spouse A first hand story from
New Mobility magazine (Feb, 1998) that presents
the issues of a spouse being a caregiver for the
individual with SCI.
Today's Caregivers For
Caregivers, About Caregivers, By Caregivers
Caregivers of Persons with Spinal
Cord Injury: A Longitudinal Investigation By J. Scott Richards, PhD
and Richard M Shewchuk, PhD. Research Update
Newsletter, September, 1996. Discusses the research
on the impact of caregiving over the first year
after a spinal cord injury. 4pp. Produced by the
RRTC in Secondary Complications in SCI at the
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Dept. of P M &
R.
Caring Road Community The online
Community of family caregivers.
Family Adjustment to
Spinal Cord Injury This booklet
addresses some of the concerns and
experiences which the family of a person
with SCI may experience. It focuses on
some of the initial questions and
concerns loved ones may have about the
injury and feelings that families
experience.
Caregivers Resources The
National Caregivers Library is one
of the most extensive online libraries
for caregivers that exist today.
Personal Care
Assistants: Special People for Your Special
Care This booklet
addresses some of the concerns and
experiences which the family of a person
with SCI may experience. It focuses on
some of the initial questions and
concerns loved ones may have about the
injury and feelings that families
experience.
Problem Solving
Interventions for Caregivers and Persons
with Spinal Cord Injury An article
from Pushin' On updating results of an
ongoing study of the long-term effects
of the relationship between persons with
SCI and family caregivers.
SCIC : Spinal Cord
Injury Caregivers This is a
forum for FAMILY MEMBERS who are
Caregivers of Spinal Cord Injury Loved
Ones. This forum is designed to share
information and to support others. You
must be a FAMILY and providing full time
care.. This is not a list for those
doing caregiving as a job or a career,
or a person doing part time caregiving.
The Well Spouse
Association
The Well Spouse Association is an
international, non-profit membership
organization which provides emotional
support to wives, husbands and partners of
the chronically ill and/or disabled. WSA
offers support groups, round robin and
mentor programs, on-line chat forum, respite
weekends, national conference and a
quarterly newsletter. Assistance given to
start new support groups.
