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Health and Wellness on a Continuum: Associated Conditions
Health and wellness are concepts that influence one’s quality of life; they comprise a dynamic state that everyone addresses throughout their lifetime. This state changes depending on other factors that enter into your life. Health and wellness include many areas of your life such as physical, emotional, spiritual, social, and cognitive (thinking) areas.
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Listing: Medical ID Bracelets
American Medical ID provides medical ID bracelets, necklaces and medallions to assist persons in a emergency. IDs can be customized highlighting key information that can help others assist a person with a disability or chronic illness.
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Service Animals - Understanding the laws
Many people, including health care professionals and other service providers, may be unsure of statutory requirements when interacting with an individual with a disability using a service animal. This source gives guidelines for proper requirements.
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Youth As Self Advocates (YASA)
YASA believes young people with disabilities will have control over their own lives and futures. YASA is a project of Family Voices and aims to empower youth with disabilities.
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Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of Illinois
The Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of Illinois provides information for professionals and consumers on the medical research, treatment and support system for this disease.
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Suicide Survivorship - Stories of Hope and Recovery
Features the stories of 4 people who survived suicide attempts. Told through voices of these individuals, their families, and support professionals.
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Peer Mentor Program at the Shirley Ryan 小恩雅
Peer mentor program and the peers are available to patients and their families at the Shirley Ryan 小恩雅, Streeterville and Wheeling Day Rehab.
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Nutrition: Healthy Eating on a Budget
ChooseMyPlate.gov is the USDA's nutrition site and provides information resources on how to eat healthy nutritious meals with financial limits relevant to current situations.
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Easter Seals Disability Services
Easter Seals is a nonprofit national organization dedicated to helping people live as independently as possible.
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My Journey with ALS: an Occupational Therapist’s Story
This is a story about an Occupational Therapist, Chris jash, and her living with ALS. Chris passed away in 2015. We mourn her passing, but keep this posting for its insights about living with a disability.
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