Welcome to the Post Polio Support Group Website

NEW HORIZONS Plan2015 was formally launched on 26th August 2010.

"Our hope" said John Mc Farlane, Chairman of the Post Polio Support Group, "is that those currently restructuring the health services will look at this strategic plan and will factor in the elements we have identified into the care of Polio Survivors". He formally thanked those who cared for Polio Survivors over many years and had made such a difference to their lives.

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"Thanks are due to all Polio Survivors" he said "they contributed their thoughts and ideas to the process that has become NEW HORIZONS-2015. This plan has grown from their inputs and is all the richer for that".

Learn more about the NEW HORIZONS Plan2015

View the photo gallery of the launch NEW HORIZONS Plan2015

 

Polio survivors unite as disease takes its toll

Article from the Irish Independent 27th August 2010

Grandmother Helen Jordan was struck by polio nearly 70 years ago. Now she is among hundreds of survivors who are battling with the disease all over again.

Helen (71) joined other survivors yesterday in Dublin to highlight the work of the Post Polio Support Group that is providing a lifeline for many people who believed they were over the worst- only to find their condition deteriorating again. The mother of five, who never let the condition prove an obstacle to living a full life, said she was now finding her feet were getting weaker and she recently got her first pair or orthopaedic boots.

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The Con Quiz

Autumn Fund Raiser

Enclosed in your copy of The SURVIVOR you will find 11 copies of "The Con Quiz". This Quiz has been created in an effort to raise essential funding for our organisation. The idea is that each member sells a number of these to their friends or neighbours at €2 each and returns the completed entries, together with fee, to the Group’s Dublin office by the 7th December 2010, for the prize draw on the 9th of December. The incentive - if you sell 10 you get a free entry yourself, if you sell 20 you get 2 free entries and so on.

If you need more entry forms you can download one here by clicking this link [Word Document, 128KB]

• First prize - 2 nights B&B plus 1 dinner for 2 in The Strand Hotel, Limerick
• Second prize - 6 bottles of fine wine.
• Third prize - A hamper of toiletries.

Return to: Post Polio Support Group, Unit 319, Capel Building, Mary’s Abbey, Dublin 7

 

Our Activities

THE POST POLIO SUPPORT GROUP focuses on maintaining the independence and dignity of Polio Survivors supporting them at work, in the home and otherwise.

Information and Support

We promote knowledge of the Late Effects of Polio, among all Polio Survivors.  We offer information on the condition and encourage peer support.  Polio Survivors help each other to cope with the challenges presented by the condition and this is structured through regular gatherings and other contacts which are organised on a national basis or by the smaller regional groups.

Creating Awareness

We create awareness about The Late Effects of Polio and Post Polio Syndrome among Polio Survivors, statutory agencies and the wider medical profession, and work to highlight all needs of Polio Survivors relating to their conditions.

Working to help Polio Survivors

We assess the needs of members and take steps in so far as we can to meet those needs.  We help members, and non members alike, by providing aids and appliances, assistive technology and services such as occupational therapy, physiotherapy, respite care breaks and chiropody.  We also work with Polio Survivors who are adapting their homes to improve access and their quality of life, generally.

Learn more about our objectives.