Arthritis Care
Arthritis Care is the only national voluntary organisation
working with and for all people with arthritis. It aims
to promote their health, well-being and independence through
services, support, self-help, information and influence.
It has over 620 branches and groups, and 59,000 members.
Did you know:
- Eight million people in the UK have arthritis.
- There are more than 200 types of arthritis.
- Arthritis is the single biggest cause of physical disability
in the UK.
- One in five visits to a GP is about arthritis
- 14,500 children have arthritis.
- 37 per cent of people with arthritis are in pain all
the time. 60 per cent have their sleep disturbed regularly.
- The total cost of arthritis in the UK was estimated
as £1.3bn in 1990
- The cost to the individual for drugs, adaptations and
special equipment averages at £4,000 a year.
- People with arthritis pay for their prescriptions.
This is not so with some other long-term conditions.
Arthritis Care:
- Provides a helplines service offering confidential
support and information about arthritis. It can be contacted
by letter or telephone. The telephone helplines are available
weekdays on 020 7380 6555 between 10.00am and 4.00pm,
or on a freephone number 080 8800 4050 between 12 noon
and 4.00pm.
- Runs Young Arthritis Care for people under 46 with arthritis.
Young Arthritis Care has local contacts and groups and
produces its own magazine.
- Runs a range of personal development training courses
for people with arthritis of all ages.
- Offers an increasing programme of self-management courses
to assist the move from dependence to independence.
- Runs four hotels and a national home visiting service.
- Produces a range of helpful publications including an
alternate monthly magazine, Arthritis News.
- Campaigns for greater awareness of the needs of all
people with arthritis.
Arthritis Care
18 Stephenson Way
London NW1 2HD
Tel: 020 7380 6500
Fax: 020 7380 6505
Website: www.arthritiscare.org.uk
Reg charity No. 206563
Publications available from Arthritis Care
Arthritis Care publications:
Arthritis News
Arthritis Care’s magazine. Published six times a year,
it includes news and
features about all aspects of living with arthritis.
Free with membership of Arthritis Care
Membership from £8.00 per year
Arthritis: Understanding People’s Everyday
Needs
Ashcroft, Jean
1999
This report recommends standards of service and care which
should be
available to people with arthritis.
48 page booklet
£5.00
The Balanced Approach: A Guide to Drugs & Complementary
Therapies
1999
This booklet offers a detailed examination of the conventional
drugs commonly prescribed to people with arthritis and includes
information about new drugs on the market it also explores
the wide range of complementary therapies used by people
with arthritis and how they can be effectively combined
with medication.
47 page booklet
Free, a £1.50 donation is welcomed to cover costs
CHAT: A guide to Juvenile Chronic Arthritis (JCA)
1997
Information about juvenile chronic arthritis (JCA), living
with JCA and treatments available. Also covers benefits,
education, employment and independence issues.
35 page booklet
£3.00. Free to parents of children with arthritis.
A Day with Sam
Hunsley, Debbie
1996
A picture book for adults for reading aloud to children
with arthritis who
are aged seven and under.
39 page booklet
Free, a £2.00 donation is welcomed to cover costs
Food for Thought: A Guide to Diet for People with
Arthritis
2000
This booklet looks at the role of diet in Arthritis. It
includes sections on how diet can influence different forms
of arthritis, dietary elimination therapy, and supplements
commonly taken by people with arthritis. 23 page booklet
Free, a £1.50 donation is welcomed to cover costs
Information for People with Arthritis
1996
This booklet gives the basic facts about arthritis; it includes
information about the main forms of arthritis; treatments
available; ways of coping; how to get help; and how to develop
your own coping skills. 39 page booklet Free, a £1.50
donation is welcomed to cover costs
Lupus: Your Questions Answered
1999
An overview of Lupus, covers symptoms, treatment and outlook.
Leaflet
Free
No Limits
A magazine for young people with arthritis. Published three
times a year as a supplement toArthritis News. News views
and reviews for 15—20 year olds.
Free with membership of Arthritis Care Membership from £8.00
per year
Our Relationships, Our Sexuality: A Guide for People
with Arthritis
1999
This booklet is for anyone who thinks arthritis prevents
them from forming or sustaining relationships. It is also
for anyone who thinks arthritis prevents them from having
a satisfying sex life. It looks at communication as well
as the practical side of lovemaking. This booklet includes
contributions from a range of men and women all of whom
have one thing in common — arthritis. Their experiences
show the funny, the serious, the truthful side to relationships.
Most importantly, their experiences show that arthritis
does not exclude you from having rewarding relationships.
27 page booklet
Free, a £1.50 donation is welcomed to cover costs
Talk About Pain: How to Deal with the Pain of Arthritis
1998
This booklet introduces a range of methods that people with
arthritis can adopt to deal with pain; it contains a lot
of personal experience and also offers information on how
to control your own pain.
35 page booklet
Free, a £1.50 donation is welcomed to cover costs
Two Commonest Forms of Arthritis
1994
Information about rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis,
available in
Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu.
Leaflet
Free
Working Horizons: Employment Information for People
with Arthritis
1999
People with arthritis often face discrimination in the job
market. This can manifest itself as barriers to getting
work in the first place. It also means that people who develop
arthritis when they are in job find themselves having to
fight to keep it. Working Horizons offers guidance for people
in both of these situations. This booklet answers many of
the questions about employment that are most commonly asked
by people with arthritis. It also gives sources of further
advice, information and training.
19 page booklet
Free, a £1.50 donation is welcomed to cover costs
Information sheets
•Drug therapy in juvenile chronic arthritis
•General reading list
•Gentle exercises for people with arthritis - books
tapes and video list
•Hip replacement: what to expect in hospital and after
•Heated pads
•Hydrotherapy pools: guidance notes
•Lupus information sheets
Dos and don’ts for people with lupus, pregnancy, topical
sun-screens, lupus reading list, ultra-violet radiation
- sunlight and fluorescent lights
•Pain management list of resources
•TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation)
for pain relief
Other publications for sale
The Arthritis Helpbook: A Tested Self-Management Program
for Coping with your Arthritis & Fibromyalgia
Long, Kate & Fries, James 2000 (5th ed.)
The basis of Arthritis Care’s self-management programme
Challenging Arthritis. It is “the world’s leading
guide to coping with joint pain, used by more than 400,000
readers over fifteen years. It succeeds because of its tested
advice, its hundreds of useful hints, and its emphasis on
self-management—helping people with arthritis and
flbromyalgia to achieve their own health goals”.
367 page book
£13.99
Getting a Grip: Self Help for Arthritis and Rheumatism
1996
Pollard, Jim
Covers drugs, complementary therapies, diet, exercise and
relaxation and stress management. Includes a comprehensive
list of useful organisations and publications.
181 page book
£7.00
Golden Mixtures
1994
Celebrities’ recipes published to celebrate Arthritis
Care’ golden
anniversary.
160 page book
£5.00
Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions
Long, Kate et al
1994
A complete self-management guide for people with chronic
conditions,
including arthritis.
296 page book
£13.99
Note
All prices include postage and packaging. To order, please
write to Arthritis
Care, stating clearly which publications you want. Include
a cheque or
postal order if necessary, payable to Arthritis Care.
Bulk orders and external organisations will be invoiced
for postage and packaging and asked for a donation to cover
printing costs.
April 2000
Revised April 2000
Please check with Arthritis Care every two years to see
if there have been any revisions
