Call for information about meeting times and places. They meet in conference rooms, restaurants and health care centers across the Northwest side, exchanging information, ideas, sympathy and hugs.
Support groups bring people with common problems together to find solutions.
We think that our neighbors' support or our family's support is all we can get. The idea of having strangers that can help - it's a growing arena. Aboud has attended her support group meetings for more than four years to talk about the challenge of caring for her mother, who has Alzheimer's. I can be going through a crisis with my mother to such a degree that I can't get the support I need from my closest loved ones. Then I go to this support group, that is so intimate with my situation, and I get my best comfort from them.