Welcome to the CareBrigade!
'If you are a newly diagnosed Patient looking for a great way to build a nuturing community to empower you through your medical journey ...this Web site can help."
Empowering Patients, families and friends to provide the medical, spiritual, and practical Patient Support needed during diagnosis, surgery, treatments, and at-home recovery.
The CareBrigade system empowers a Patient, supported by at least two friends or loved ones, to create a customized plan for supporting the Patient's physical, spiritual, and emotional well-being during any short-term debilitating medical treatments like radiation or chemo, or following surgery. The CareBrigade supports the Patient's complete healing during at-home recovery, including creating a space for miracles.
'If you are a friend looking for a great way to start a conversation about how to support someone you love or care for....this Web site can help."
How a CareBrigade Works?
- Empowers and supports the Patient in making sure the patient's values, preferences, and expressed needs are respected and honored by all.
- Rallies the Patient's acquaintances, family and friends as an "on-call" support team for the Patient when he/she is overwhelmed, zonked out or debilitated by the cures.
- Empowers and supports the Patient in making informed, thoughtful, and satisfying medical decisions.
- Helps the Patient use integrative mind-body healing and relaxation practices to manage anxiety, fear, and stress that depletes the body's own healing power during treatments and in recovery.
- Identifies in advance practical tasks the Patient might need support with, friends and family whose talents match those needs, suggests some easy,efficient, and free Web tools for managing CareBrigade volunteers at a distance.
How to Start a CareBrigade?
THE PATIENT, A TRUSTED FRIEND, OR A FAMILY MEMBER CAN START THE BALL ROLLING!
1. Head over to How it Works and download the 5 Steps
2. Check out the Roles & Tasks page.
FRIENDS? Find out which Roles match your gifts, talents, and/or life style demands. Be prepared to only volunteer for what you have the gift for and what would not be a "sacrifice" or a chore.
PATIENT? Find out which Roles you are likely to need during your medical journey to support your full healing and complete recovery. Think of friends and familiy members whose gifts and circumstances might fit the other Roles.
Read how one gal faced with cancer, single and alone, reinvented the CareBrigade!! You Go Girl!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-single-with-cancer-20120413,0,2981346.story
3. Don't know what kind of practical help you or your Patient might need during recovery or long-term chemo treatments? Here's a Wish List to give you some ideas. Your personal Wish list will be customized to this Patient's particular needs and circumstances. Check out the Practical Help section of our Resource Page to get links to lots of FREE online tools to support help like meals, drivers, and keeping in touch.
READY TO START? Email us at info@carebrigade.com for 30 minutes FREE phone coaching to set up your customized CareBrigade.
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CareBrigade Allows Friends and Family Pulling Together to Support a Patient You Love