FACTSHEETS

The factsheets listed below are intended to help families living with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, and especially to help others (like friends and relatives) understand. Please feel free to print, copy and distribute them!

Family Life

• Finding out what's wrong
• Checklist for parents at appointments
• Positive Daily Living and Mobility
• Playing, learning and education - Pre School Children
• What should you expect from the school?
• Common problems in schools
• Money matters
• Disability Living Allowance (DLA)
• Invalid Care Allowance (ICA)
• Other sources of financial support
• Brothers and sisters
• Parents' experiences - Mothers
• Parents' experiences - Fathers
• Looking ahead
• Your part in parent / professional relationship
• Shoes and Footwear
• Food and food supplements

About Childhood Arthritis

• What is childhood arthritis?
• Splinting
• Medicines
• Principles of medical treatment and therapy
• News about Grandparents and support of family and friends
• History of childhood Arthritis
• Who's who in the health services, treatment principles and real life
• Experiences of children with arthritis
• What happens when puberty is delayed

Exercises

• Exercises 1: Why do exercises? / Dilemmas for exercises at home
• Exercises 2: How to do the exercises

Pain

• Children and Pain
• Pain 1: children and pain
• Pain 2: strategies to manage pain for children with arthritis
• Pain 3: One girl's descriptions of the kinds of pain she experiences

Sources of Help

• Help understanding juvenile idiopathic arthritis
• Help with play and daily living
• Help with the law, benefits and education
• Specialist legal, benefits and education advice organisations (across UK)
• General Organisations for families of ill or disabled children (UK wide)
• Help in Scotland
• Help in Northern Ireland
• Help in Wales