All Topics Target Populations Families and Individuals Needing Support Families/Friends of People With Health Conditions

The parents, children, spouses, partners, friends or other relatives or significant others of people with acute or chronic illnesses, injuries or other pathological conditions which affect the individual's physical well-being, whose own patterns of personal, social and familial coping have been significantly affected by ongoing interaction with and concern about the individual. Health conditions may be temporary or permanent, may be present at birth or occur at any point in a person's lifetime, and can be of different levels of severity.