During the time when someone is diagnosed with an illness or disabling injury, family, friends, and co-workers come out of the woodwork to offer assistance, provide meals or simply discuss the condition. Unfortunately, however, this can be burdensome to those going through a life-changing event.
The web offers a great ability to provide a resource for people to use to find out the latest status, post-surgery updates, even coordinate assistance.
We strongly encourage that a family member (son or daughter) or even a close friend be responsible for developing and maintaining a web page using one of the following free web pages to create a "go-to" place for information and event coordination.
It is always appreciated when friends bring meals, but unfortunate when they all come on the same day.
Use the web page to create a sign-up for meal deliveries, getting rides for kids to events (soccer practice, school etc).
Finally, use the page to broadcast updates on conditions to minimize phone calls and impromptu visits to allow the person control of their healing.
From the launch of the very first CaringBridge site, we’ve been working toward a single vision: a world where no one goes through a health journey alone. In order to turn this vision into reality, we’ve made it our mission to build bridges of care and communication providing love and support on a health journey. A health journey of any kind—diagnosis, injury, illness, pregnancy complications, or other experiences—is difficult to endure alone. Too often, patients and caregivers feel isolated at a time when support matters most. In these moments, there’s no match for the power of community, because healing happens when we’re surrounded by our loved ones.
Lotsa Helping Hands is a service that helps people coordinate care, communicate, and receive emotional support. It offers a variety of features, including care calendars, reminders, message boards and blogs. It is also a place to share photos, post well-wishes and store vital information where care coordinators can store and retrieve medical, health, financial, and legal documents.
We believe community is stronger than cancer. MyLifeLine exists to easily connect cancer patients and caregivers with friends and family in order to reduce stress, anxiety and isolation. By creating your own private website, our goal is to help you find hope, regain control, document your journey, and receive social, emotional, and practical support from friends and family throughout the treatment process and beyond. On MyLifeLine discussion boards, you can connect with others like you. Share your unique cancer experiences and offer insights, coping strategies and inspiration. Covering a wide range of topics, our discussion boards are moderated by licensed mental health professionals and are available 24/7.
Give InKind is an easy-to-use online tool for organizing support during life’s important and challenging moments. Each InKind Page empowers communities to help from anywhere through a Care Calendar, Wishlist, News and Updates, Donations, and more. From the birth of a baby, to the loss of a loved one, to medical crisis, and disasters, Give InKind makes support simple so that no one goes through a big moment alone.
