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What is MS?
What is Multiple Sclerosis?
Signs & Symptoms
Who gets MS?
Managing & Treating MS
MS FAQs
Support Services
Community Advisors
Support Groups
Newly Diagnosed Programme
Webinars
Peer Support
Counselling
Exercise Support Fund
Total Mobility Cards
Guides
Friends and Whānau
Newly Diagnosed
Health and Fitness
Wellbeing
My Relationships
Work, Money and Rights
Home Help and Housing
Stories
MS and Me
Diagnosis
Volunteer
Bequests
News, Events & Research
What’s Happening
Multiple News Magazine
Research Articles
Social Media News
Ways to Help
Volunteer
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Gifts in Wills
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10 Ways to Support Someone with MS
Are you close to someone diagnosed with MS? Want to offer support, but don't know how?
Learn the basics about
MS
. The
Mackenzie Institute
has a free six-week online course which is suitable for anyone with an interest in MS. It has a balance of clinical information and patient experience.
Remember that a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis can take months or years to
adjust
to, even if symptoms have been experienced for a long time
Listen and support, and remember that you
cannot ‘fix’ their MS
Offer to
attend appointments
with them
Be open to
plans changing,
for example if fatigue sets in before a planned engagement
Ask them what they need,
don’t assume
They are the
same person
and it’s unlikely that they will welcome any pity. They have a new (unwanted) passenger on their bus, which is MS!
Remember that
no two days are the same
when living with MS.
If you are
employer to someone with MS,
let them know that you support them and listen to what they need. MS Auckland Community Advisors can provide guidance such as funding available for workplace adjustments
Utilise the advice, support, referrals and more available from
MS Auckland
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