"People I can call on" is a community report from the Serious and Continuing Illness Policy and Practice Study, (SCIPPS) Menzies Centre for Health Policy. Nineteen people talked to SCIPPS researchers about what life was like living with chronic illness.
Strengthening the capacity of people to provide effective informal support benefits everyone. People in this study described challenges they experience in their daily lives, in relationships with family members, and in consultations with healthcare workers. They indicated that they want to increase their health knowledge so they can assist other members in their community, but they only wanted unsolicited help if it made them feel empowered and positive. The report provides suggestions for the ways in which healthcare workers, health services and policy can help.
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