Health and social care can affect every aspect of our lives. Illness is more than a list of symptoms; it also impacts on our work, hobbies, family life and our mental wellbeing. On healthtalk.org and socialcaretalk.org you can learn about what it’s really like to live with a health condition or social care issues, by watching other people share their own stories on film.
The websites are run by the Dipex Charity. We help millions of people each year to feel better prepared, better informed, and less alone in what they are going through.
Our research partners, from universities across the UK, have collected thousands of personal health stories by talking to ordinary people in their own homes.
For each health condition covered on healthtalk.org a visitor to the website can view detailed web pages describing every aspect of the experience of that issue, e.g.: early symptoms, treatment, talking to children and impact on work and leisure. Each page has video and audio clips taken from the research interviews.
It is important that our website is backed up by rigorous research. Our founders and we believe that other people’s experiences are incredibly valuable to supporting people with health issues, but unlike online chat rooms, we aim to ensure that our information is balanced and fact-checked.
We work with academic researchers all over the country to gather and analyse these health and social care stories. In the 20 plus years since the charity was founded, Dipex has worked with scores of qualitative researchers from all over the UK to transform research into resources based on thousands of people’s personal health experiences.
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