SSO resources

We have a number of resources to help you to strengthen your organisation, to engage in advocacy and to hear about good practice in long term stroke care.

This toolkit has been developed with input from our SSO members and we hope that wherever you are on your SSO journey that you find some of the information, resources and insights in the toolkit helpful. This toolkit is the ‘core’ resource offering guidance on developing and growing an SSO. It is intended to support key aspects of developing an organization: people, purpose, management and impact. We will follow this core resource with a suite of manuals that will delve deeper into topics including campaigning and advocacy and life after stroke issues.

SSO Toolkit 2024

This guide provides a lay summary of clinical evidence for managing the risk of stroke, and is intended to assist SSOs in their non-medical interventions to help support stroke survivors to manage risk of a further stroke.

Preventing another stroke - Topic Guide

The Global Stroke Bill of Rights is an important priority for the World Stroke Organization. These rights identify the aspects of care that are important for ALL stroke survivors and caregivers from across the world. This toolkit is designed to help stroke and patient organizations share and use the Global Stroke Bill of Rights.

Global Stroke Bill of Rights Toolkit

Global Stroke Bill of Rights Campaign Resources - we have created materials to support communication, including an online petition for supporters to sign.

This toolkit will help you advocate effectively for improvements in the health system to address stroke in your region.

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Life After Stroke - World Stroke Academy Content

You can access Life After Stroke content on the World Stroke Academy here

Lay summary of the 2023 systematic review and synthesis of global stroke guidelines for our non-specialist audience.

Aphasia friendly lay summary of the 2023 systematic review and synthesis of global stroke guidelines.

Lay summary of the Pragmatic solutions to reduce the global burden of stroke: a World Stroke Organization – Lancet Neurology Commission

In 2024, the World Stroke Organization carried out a survey with people affected by post-stroke spasticity. The aims of this survey were to find out:

• what survivors of stroke and carers knew about post-stroke spasticity, and how they learned about it,

• what treatments stroke survivors with spasticity had and what the barriers were to accessing treatment,

• what levels of understanding or discrimination people with post-stroke spasticity experience.

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WSO membership connects you to a global network of people who are committed to and support each other to improve stroke prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and support.

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