Caring for Yourself
Fact Sheets: Caring for Yourself: Information for Caregivers – ALS Canada
Caring for a person with ALS is an important but demanding role. Learn how it can affect you and tips for self-care.
Fact Sheets: First steps after an ALS diagnosis – ALS Canada
This fact sheet offers first steps you can take if you or your loved one has been diagnosed with ALS.
Stories for caregivers – Mitzi
Advice and insight from Mitzi, a yoga teacher and accountant providing support to her father who has ALS .
Thrive Through Self Care – Mitzi Perez & Melanie Richards
The author shares her personal experience caring for her father who has ALS, in order to help others in a similar situation.
Your ALS Guide: Home & Daily Living Guide
A guide to help people living with ALS and those supporting them to improve their everyday quality of life.
Gleason
A documentary about Steve Gleason, former NFL player who was diagnosed with ALS at age 34, and his mission to live life to the fullest.
You’re Not You
Movie about an accomplished classical pianist diagnosed with ALS and the college student who becomes her caregiver.
The Theory of Everything
Oscar-winning movie about physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife Jane, and the impact of his growing success and ALS diagnosis on their relationship