Patient Support Groups: Helping Patients and their caregivers cope with the diagnosis of Cancer  A diagnosis of cancer can bring out strong fears and anxieties in the affected family or social unit. While timely access to treatment and family support can go a long way in erasing these fears, there is a growing sense of isolation that sets in which can have a big impact on patients’ emotional well being. No one knows what someone is going through unless they are going through it themselves. Patient support groups address this need of sharing and learning from each others’ experiences.
Although in western countries patient support groups are an established section of the health care community, in many other countries this is still a novel approach to self help. That is, until now. In the past few years The Max Foundation has fostered the formation of patient groups in the communities where we operate as a means to build community resources and provide patients with emotional support. |
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 The logo and slogan for the year 2011 was inspired by this lovely watercolour by Dr Niranjani. You may know her as the wife of Dr Raghu, the FOM core group leader in Hyderabad. The slogan for this year is : "GROW WITH THE TREE OF LIFE"
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Another All India Friends of Max meeting came to a stupendous conclusion last week. I say this because indeed this gathering of literally hundreds of survivors and caregivers is not restricted to just the one day on which it is held . it is a culmination of months of effort and at least three days of frenetic and focused activity totally devoted to giving the participants all they need in terms of Sharing and Learning from each other .
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19th October, 2011 was celebrated as Max’s Birthday. Well, we all wait for this day hen we step into the month of October. Here in the MI office the responsibility of decorating the office was given to the three of us – Leenata , Melissa and myself . We were very much thrilled and super excited.
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Dear Bravehearts,
An e-mail has been created for those who are not-yet on face book. As many of us know that we have "Friends of Max" group on face book.
And you can interact with the group by sending e-mail to fom05 at groups dot facebook dot com from your yahoo or Gmail or Rediffmail or any other e-mail service. Collectively let's leave a paved path for next batch of Life-maximizers! - Manoj Joshi
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FRIENDS OF MAX JOIN HANDS WITH LIVESTRONG ON LIVESTRONG DAY
As all the Friends of Max from the four corners of this vast land gathered together to celebrate their lives in all its glory, their joy and spirits were testimony to the philosophy propounded by none other than Gandhi ji himself, whose birth anniversary also falls on October 2nd. “Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy” is what he once said and Living Strong and with Joy and Hope in our lives each one of the 14,500 strong Friends of Max support group was proud to be part of LIVESTRONG DAY today. Here was a living legend who inspired and motivated them to face the challenge of cancer with cheer and strength!
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 It was in May 2010, Hyderabad made the adventurous announcement of hosting the next Annual Meeting of Friends of Max – HELLO HYDERABAD! After months of planning and preparations, everything was going as per plan. However days before the event trouble started for the city and team Hyderabad.
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Guys do we all know what is “ZMND”. Its Zindagi Mile Na Dobara ...
Date: 19th Oct 2011
It was providential that young Sheeba came to...
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