Young @ Heart
This page is dedicated to younger and newly diagnosed people with MS and those this affects.
Are you young in body, mind or at heart? Would you like to help us write the content of this page? If so, we would like your contributions to this page!
Please contact anyone on the Wessex & West Committee and tell us what you would like to see on this page.
MS is typically diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 40, but the symptoms of MS can begin at any age. It is estimated that about 5% of people with MS develop symptoms in childhood or adolescence.
View more information on the subject by clicking on the title above.
If you are caring for someone at home who has MS, check out the society's Young Carers page by clicking on the title above. It has some useful information and links.
The MS Society has produced a dvd which aims to explain multiple sclerosis to children under the age of ten.
Annie and Dan are puppets who, with the aid of simple, clear illustrations, explain what MS is, how it affects people and what happens during a relapse. Dan's mother has just been diagnosed as having MS and he talks through his worries with his friend Annie, whose father has MS.
Order a copy of the dvd
To find out more about the support the Society gives to carers and about other organisations relevant to carers, click on the title above to go to the Wessex & West Carers' page.
||