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You are probably reading this information because your mum or dad or someone special in the family has Motor Neurone Disease. It is a long name and for short it is often called MND.
Not many people get this illness and some adults you talk to may never have heard of it or know little about it…
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Living with MND is a collection of advice from carers, patients, former carers and health professionals. It is a distillation of information that is offered as experience which other people living with MND may wish to draw on.
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If a family member or friend has been recently diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) you may be wondering where to turn for information and support. MND Australia and the state MND associations have the resources and expertise to help family and friends care for their loved one.
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People who receive a diagnosis of any serious illness, and those close to them, are very likely to have feelings of shock, anger and despair. This is especially true when people who are fit, well and active, develop very early signs of motor neurone disease (MND).
The shock experienced when hearing the diagnosis frequently means that people do not remember very much of what their neurologist has explained to them. The questions they most frequently ask are…
(Information on this page is also available in Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Polish, Serbian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese through PDF links.)
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Motor Neurone Disease (MND) is the name of a group of diseases that cause the death of the nerve cells (neurones) that control the muscles that enable us to move, speak, swallow and breathe…
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