Health Update: Able to advise

ACCIDENT victims who become paralysed have to come to terms with the loss of their independence. These people are often young men in their late teens and early twenties who have been involved in car accidents or had sports injuries.

The Keep Able Foundation has launched Able Link, a support group to encourage recently injured young people to take as positive an approach to disability as possible. The group is run by tetraplegics and other severely disabled young volunteers who use technological developments to increase their independence. Contact Prue Turner, Keep Able Foundation, 081-994 6614.