Our Aims

Any serious illness will disrupt a person's normal life-style, especially if it has lasted many years and has led to major surgery resulting in a change of body function and body image.

As one of IA's member organizations York IA aims to provide help and support to these people in their time of need by providing first hand support from others who have had a similar experience.

York IA aims to:-

• Help anybody who has had or is about to have their colon removed return to a normal and fully active life as soon as possible.
  
  
• Help them with all aspects of their rehabilitation including social activities, relationships with their families, employers, colleagues and members of the general public.
  
  
• Work in close co-operation with the medical authorities as part of a team whose primary aim is the complete rehabilitation of every ileostomy or pouch patient.
  
  
• Promote and co-ordinate research, not only into ways of improving the quality of life with an ileostomy or internal pouch, but also into the illnesses which lead to these operations.
  
  
• Improve knowledge about the management of ileostomies and pouches and encourage development of new ostomy equipment and skin care preparations.