Stroke Community Sites, FaceBook Groups and Forums

About.com Stroke Forum

• Description: "About.com is an online neighborhood of hundreds of helpful experts, eager to share their wealth of knowledge with visitors."
• Quality: About.com is recognized as a top 15 content site and one of the largest producers of original content on the Web.

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eHealthForum - Stroke Forums

• Description: "eHealth Forum is an online health community that attracts 2,300,000+ unique monthly visitors. The site hosts 200+ medical forums that generate user-based health information. The site is an interactive, 100% professionally moderated social network; our administrative staff reviews every post."
• Quality: It is accredited by HONcode.

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Inspire - Stroke Community

• Description: An online community connecting patients who have had strokes and their caregivers, family and friends.
• Quality: Inspire connects patients, families, friends, caregivers and health professionals for health and wellness support. Inspire works with trusted health partners to build safe and secure health and wellness groups.

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MDJunction - Stroke Support Group

• Description: "A community of patients, family members and friends dedicated to dealing with Stroke, together."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

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MedHelp Stroke - Community

• Description: "The MedHelp site connects people with the leading medical experts and others who have similar experiences. Today, MedHelp empowers over 8 million people each month to take control over their health and find answers to their medical questions. MedHelp has over 15 years of accumulated information from doctors and other patients across hundreds of conditions."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode (currently under review).

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Revolution Health - Stroke Community

• Description: "Revolution Health is a leading consumer-centric health company founded to transform how people approach their overall health and wellness. By putting individuals at the center of their own healthcare, Revolution Health allows them to make informed choices and offers more convenience and control over their individual healthcare decisions."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

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Stroke Online Health Community and Support Group

• Description: "The Founder of Healia is a public health professional who started the company after repeatedly seeing how access to high quality information is a central determinant of health for people around the world. We believe that emerging technologies can provide enormous opportunities for health improvement and that access to health information and support is a fundamental human right."
• Quality: "Through this Stroke support group, you can get Stroke information, share experiences about Stroke, connect with peers, and get answers to your Stroke questions from health professionals."

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Stroke Support Group

• Description: Online Stroke support community.
• Quality: Disclaimer and contact information are available.

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StrokeConnect

• Description: "Welcome to the Strokeconnect forum for anyone affected by stroke. StrokeConnect provides a safe place to build connections with others who have a similar experience, pose questions, find answers, stimulate new discussions, get information and share stories. It enables you to meet others affected by stroke without having to leave your home."
• Quality: "The National Stroke Foundation (NSF) has developed this program in response to needs expressed by stroke survivors and carers for an easily accessible program which allows for connection with others who have a shared experience – peer support."

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WebMD® - Stroke Community

• Description: "Having a stroke is a life altering experience. Discuss prevention, recovery, and more with experts, caregivers and members who understand."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

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Facebook is a free social networking site where users can join groups. In these groups, members can post messages, interact with others or find relevant content. A few of the numerous stroke groups:

American Stroke Foundation

• Description and content: "To empower stroke survivors and their families to overcome ongoing challenges of life after stroke and rejuvenate their lives."

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Childhood Stroke Awareness

• Description and content: "To spread the word that strokes DO happen to our kids!!! And hopefully help to make next year's awareness day a national day."

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National Stroke Association

• Description and content: "National Stroke Association is the only national organization in the United States that focuses 100% of its efforts on stroke. National Stroke Association achieves its mission to reduce the incidence and impact of stroke by developing compelling community outreach programs, calling for continued improvement in the quality of stroke patient care, and educating both health care professionals and the general public about stroke."

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Pediatric Stroke Support

• Description and content: "The goal of this group is to bring together friends and families of infant or childhood stroke survivors from around the world."

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Stroke Awareness

• Description and content: "A simple set of tests to recognize stroke."

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Stroke F.A.S.T Awareness

• Description and content: "ACT F.A.S.T. is a new national government campaign aimed at helping people to recognise the signs of stroke, and act to save lives and reduce the damage caused."

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Stroke Survivor

• Description and content: "This is a group site for all to discuss their experiences and struggles living with a physical disability. The leader of the group, Dan Chicoine (me) suffered a massive stroke on December 31, 1993 and has miraculously continued on with his life."

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Stroke Survivors Who Love Life

• Description and content: "A group for people to meet other stroke survivors and not dwell on any problems but discuss how they are doing, physiotherapy, walking, exercises, ask questions and just have fun talking. This group is also open to caregivers also."

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Young Stroke Survivors

• Description and content: "A group for stroke survivors under the age of 55 to connect to other stroke survivors. Meet others/share stories/whatever you want to use it for."

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American Heart Association - Tip of the Week

• Description: "American Heart Associations' Tip of the Week Widget will display weekly tips to help people lower their cholesterol and risk for heart disease and stroke."

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