FYI Informational Factsheets
Benefits
- New Social Security Rules – Addressing Presumptive Disability for People Living with ALS
- A Professional’s Guide to Assisting Families with Obtaining Government Benefits
Caregivers
- Oral Care for the Patient with ALS: A Guide for the Caregiver
- For Caregivers - Coping with Burnout
- Family Caregiving-Why Respite?
- ALS and Cognitive Changes: A Guide for Patients and Families
Newly Diagnosed
- Viatical Settlements & Accelerated Insurance Benefits
- Using Advance Directives
- Tips for Newly-Diagnosed ALS Patients from Will Hubben
- The ALS Association's Patient Bill of Rights for People Living With ALS
- Second Opinion FAQs
- Rilutek
- Reasons for Living with ALS
- Patient ID Card
- Minimizing Fatigue
- Living a Fuller Life with ALS
- Be a Careful Internet User
For People with ALS
- Suspected Abuse
- Orthotic Devices
- Malnutrition in ALS
- Influenza and ALS
- Dressing with Ease, Style and Comfort
- Breathing Difficulties
Research/Clinics
- Nursing Management in ALS
- Glutamate Research Could Lead to ALS Treatment
- Genetic Testing for ALS
- Epidemiology of ALS and Suspected Clusters
- Donation of Tissue for Research
- Criteria For the Diagnosis of ALS
- Compassionate Use Programs
- Brain Computer Interface Technology
- ALS, Cognitive Impairment & Frontotemporal Lobar Demential
Speech/Swallowing
- To Cough or Not to Cough
- Suggestions and Information on Dysarthria (Slurred Speech) and Augmentative Communication
- Recipe for Ensure Shake
- Managing Excessive Saliva
- Information About Feeding Tubes





