Adults Living with Brain Injury

Adults Living with Brain Injury

Carolyn Rocchio, Pam Fleming, CCC-SLP and Erika Mountz, O.T.R./L.

Brain injury tip card with checklists for families to identify effects of TBI on physical, social, cognitive abilities and behaviors and assess needs for help.

This Tip card is included in the Tool Kit for Life Care Planners and Case Managers on Adults with Brain Injury.

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Information tip card with checklists to identify the effects of a traumatic brain injury on physical skills, vision, hearing, thinking, learning, behaviors, and awareness.

Checklists can be used to identify how much help is needed for self care, orientation, communication, home safety, household duties, organization, social skills, handling money, and transportation. Includes strategies for protecting others from out of control behavior.

Details
Item ALBI
Pages 8
Year 2007, second edition

Authors

Carolyn Rocchio

As a spokesperson for families of survivors of brain injury and founder and past President of the Brain Injury Association of Florida, Carolyn Rocchio is internationally recognized for her compassion and expertise.

Carolyn’s list of achievements, honors and publications is lengthy – but what you will hear is the voice of a mother who knows first hand about the compassion, endurance, hope and determination needed to move forward after brain injury.

Contents

This tip card helps professionals and families...

  • identify safety concerns
  • encourage independence

Checklist for Independence and Effects of Brain Injury

  • Physical changes
  • Vision and hearing
  • Thinking and learning
  • Behaviors, awareness and emotions

Living with Brain Injury

  • Self-care
  • Orientation
  • Communication
  • Home safety
  • Household
  • Organization
  • Social skills
  • Financial
  • Transportation
  • Risk factors
  • Legal issues

Strategies for Protection, Changing Behavior and Personal Safety

Strategies for protecting others from

  • out of control behavior
  • Strategies for changing behavior
  • Strategies for personal safety

Conclusion

Excerpts

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Encouraging Independence

The first question after a person has a brain injury that many families ask is, When can he come home? This is often followed by... How will we manage? Can she be alone? How much supervision and help will be needed?

It can be difficult to find the balance between protecting a person from further injury and encouraging independence. There are many factors to consider whether the person is just preparing to be discharged from the hospital or rehabilitation program or already living at home. This tip card provides checklists and strategies to guide families and caregivers. It can be used to identify areas where further treatment is needed, justify requests for services or funding, and improve the safety and independence of the person with a brain injury.

We all depend on others in some way, whether it is for physical help, emotional support, finances or learning. No matter how independent or dependent an individual is, we are all interdependent on others in some way.

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