Sometimes people feel lost as to what to do and how to care for their family member or friend. When caring for someone with a serious illness, people often ask themselves:
“How do I know that when I do something that I am doing it the right way?”
“Is there anything else I can do to make our lives easier?”
“What are our options?“
It is important to get good quality information about a person’s diagnosis and treatment, and what this may mean in terms of caring for that person. Yet, many carers of people with a high-grade glioma struggle to find easy to understand information that is relevant and reliable. There are lots of decisions to make when caring for someone and good quality information can help to guide those decisions.
Watch this video from Looking forward after brain cancer to learn more about the importance and usefulness of finding the right resources:
In this section we will look at how to find reliable information and point you to some reliable resources that may be helpful. Throughout this whole website we have used resources that are trustworthy, but what does that mean? How can someone tell if a website is trustworthy?
The best information is current, unbiased information based on research.