The University of Michigan Center for Managing Chronic Disease and the group Advocacy for Patients with Chronic Illness, Inc., are using a National Institutes of Health grant to study the obstacles facing the chronically ill and their caregivers, interventions that do and do not help overcome those obstacles and how the NIH can help. If you are over 18 years of age and have a chronic illness or disorder, such as epilepsy, or are a caregiver to someone with epilepsy, you can provide much-needed input. Please visit http://chronicdisease.survey.sgizmo.com/ to take the survey and tell your health care story.

The survey is long–it will take about an hour to complete–but they will allow you to take breaks and return to it, so it is do-able. I think it could be a real benefit to the study to have our input.