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Brain Injury Brain Injury
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Introduction It is useful to consider acquired brain injury and developing skills for independence within the context of a healthy person's abilities and life span.A health persons's abilities include: understanding and communication, mobility, self-care, interacting with other people, being able to participate in life activities such as leisure, work and school, joining and participating in community activities. A person's life span typically moves through the stages of birth, pre school years, school years, young adult, middle age, retirement and old age. An acquired brain injury impacts on a person's abilities at a point in their life span. The nature and extent of the impact and the services and rehabilitation process that will be needed are related to the nature of the injury to the brain and the point in their life span when it occurs. Planning services for people with acquired brain injury principles should be based on:
A person's abilities The graphic may take a few moments to load.
Click on the "Person" to display the person's abilities. These are people's abilities. A TBI will impact on these abilities. A person's life span The graphic may take a few moments to load.
Click on "Birth" to click though the screens. The implications for the person and their life are very different depending on when a TBI occurs.
Daily life activities Activities in daily life can include:
What physical and cognitive skills do you need for these activities? All these daily living activities require one or more of the following physical and cognitive skills. These skills that may be affected by a traumatic brain injury. This will result in the person with a TBI having difficulty performing the daily living activities that require them:
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