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Listing: Home Personal Assistance Resources

This listing of Illinois resources is to help people with disabilities and those over 60 find assistance at home with the daily activities that they could use assistance with such as meal preparation, laundry, cleaning, and light chores. Some of the resources offer financial assistance or reduced rates to accommodate the financial constraints that are often a consideration.

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Listing: Support Groups at Shirley Ryan 小恩雅

Support groups are an important part of recovery and social support. These groups are held by past patients or community members who gather to offer support in an online or in person group atmosphere. This listing has all groups available to past patients and the community.

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Listing: Advance Directives forms for health choices - IDHP and POLST

This listing of advance directive resources and considerations is for the family and care providers to assist in decisions and considerations for nearing the end of one's life and their well being, estate, and other management decisions relating to health. Power of Attorney (POA), Living Will, guardianship, and declaration of mental health. POLST forms.

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Listing: Grants for Adaptive Sports Equipment, Automotive, and Home Needs

Listing of grants and funding resources for people with disabilities to achieve their goals with financial resources for adaptive sports equipment, motor vehicle and automotive adaptations, home modification adaptations, and general life support.

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Listing: Dementia, Alzheimer's and Aging Resources

This is a listing of dementia, and cognitive decline resources to support people with Alzheimer's, and or Dementia with aging, research and foundations.

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Respect Ability - Fighting Stigmas, Advancing Opportunities

RespectAbility fights stigmas and advances opportunities so that people with disabilities can fully participate in all aspects of the community. A viewer can obtain information about learning how to advocate for oneself, promote healthy living, information about tips when visiting someone with a disability, and tips for talking to people with disabilities.

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Corto Ian Fundacion Ian short film on Cerebral Palsy

A short film posted on YouTube about a boy Ian, with Cerebral Palsy, and how playground bullying affects his determination and others to help him gain equality.

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Cerebral Palsy - Navigating Adult Life

Adults living with CP cerebral palsy will find this site provides resources for enriching your life, while living with cerebral palsy and navigating adult life issues.

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Back In LIFE

In July of 2005, Zack Weinstein was canoeing with a group of friends down the Saco River, in Maine. While jumping into a shallow part of the river, Zack broke his neck. At nineteen-years-old he became a C5-C6 Quadriplegic.

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Take A Look At This Heart!

Take A Look At This Heart is a documentary about a subject rarely represented in the media, and often considered too taboo to discuss: love and sexuality in the disabled community.

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