Peer coaches

Does your OSA practitioner/clinic use peer coaches? Someone who is suffer of OSA not a medical professional? My brother suggested I look into this since I helped him so well when going thru the study and adjustment period.

Is this something as a group we should try to initiate? This forum is great but most suffers are finding out about it late and it may have helped them earlier. I will try to contact the clinic here and find out if they do use them, how they are chosen and how to form a group to do it.

What a good idea, stanta!

Great idea! In my area, the AWAKE support group meets every other month, but that's different from being an available, one-on-one peer coach on a more frequent basis. I've not yet been to an AWAKE meeting.

American Sleep Apnea Association (ASAA), Washington, DC and local groups. Phone 202.293.3650. http://www.sleepapnea.org/ $25 annual membership includes newsletters and a medical alert bracelet or necklace. Local AWAKE Network support groups meet in sleep centers or hospitals, with speakers, vendor fair, open forum.