What is it?
It is a digital platform that helps people cope better with an illness
We are human beings and inevitably, sooner or later we will have to live with an illness. We know that no matter the illness we are referring to, it means work. But we also think that if we get involved and take action, we will be able to make it more bearable.
What will you be able to do?
We propose you 5 ways of copping better with the illness
Community
Talk with people like you.
Talks
Meet people who live with the same illness and speak with them. Pick those with whom you share more similar characteristics and create your own circle of interest.
Questions and answers
Ask your doubts to have different points of view. Help the community by answering questions posted by other people. Or simply give it the once-over in order to learn more about your illness.
Groups and associations
Join or create a group to share your hobbies and meet other people in concrete places or circumstances. Join the Patients´ Associations to learn about their activities.
Anybody can be part of the community. You just need to create an account and virtual identity to keep your privacy.
Database
Keep track of your illness.
Daily control
Register how you are dealing with your illness every day and learn what and when it happens. By doing this, both you and your doctor will be able to check your evolution.
Treatments
Write down what you are being prescribed and what you are going to do for your treatment. You will get a planning and a record with all your treatments.
The community and you
Compare your situation to the others´ in the community through simple graphics and stats.
Reports
Download a personalized report on your evolution with the data and period of time you want for your own archive or to be given to your doctor.
Are you concerned about your privacy? So are we. Thus we have decided not to ask for the people´s real name. Here you will always interact with your virtual profile.
Applications
Take control wherever you are.
Download the app to keep track of your illness and check how you are dealing with it day by day.
Using it is very easy and intuitive:
- Choose the variable of control.
- Enter the data.
- Turn the phone to see the graphic.
- Activate the warning mode to remind you of your medication and when to enter new data.
All the apps are free and specifically designed for each illness. They will be available for iPhone, Android or both.
Practical library
Learn and share knowledge
Learn from people´s experience and knowledge on living with a long-term illness.
Learning
Enter any word in the search field to find articles you are interested in. You will learn about many different points of views.
Contributing
Become an author by writing an article. Many people will thank you. Before publishing it we will check it in order to adapt it to the platform´s features.
We believe in people´s knowledge on living with a long-term illness either because they are suffering from it or because they take care of others. In this section the articles are based on personal experience which will be useful for others.
Portal
Keep updated on your illness.
Learn about new aspects of the illness, relationships with people, spare time, health and many other subjects that may have an influence on you or be interesting for your day-to-day.
You will always find publications in simple formats: brief articles, presentations, infographics and videos.
The editorial staff at “People who” and their collaborators create these digital publications sticking to the same editorial principles and Code of Ethics.
For whom was it created?
For all those who in one way or another live with an illness.
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If you suffer from an illness
People who are already diagnosed with an illness.
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If you take care of others
People who do not suffer from an illness but take care of someone who does suffer from an illness. Not only close relatives but professional caregivers.
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If you interact or are interested
People who neither suffer from an illness nor take care of ill people but are interested in an illness or interact with ill people.
What diseases are active?
We will be adding diseases
Our wish is to reach everybody, no matter the disease they are living with. Little by little, we will be adding new diseases. If you want to be in the loop, please subscribe to our newsletter.
We think that if we work together we can improve the way of coping with an illness. This is the only reason for our existence.
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