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Module 3

3.0 Aims

3.1 Living Skills

3.2 Impacts

3.3 Encouraging

3.4 Rehabilitation

3.5 Assiting

3.6 Strategies

3.7 Risks

3.8 Take home      messages

3.9 Resources

3.10 Take the        Test

7.Case management    
8.Supervising staff 


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Self Study

Module 3

3.1 List the activities you need to perform for daily living, and the skills that you need to do these activities

  • i) Introduction

  • ii) A person's
    abilities
  • iii) A person's
    life span
  • iv) Brainstorm Q

  • v) Daily activities

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:

  • person centred principles
  • life span approach

 

A person's abilities

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Click on the "Person" to display the person's abilities.
Click again to return to the opening screen.

These are people's abilities. A TBI will impact on these abilities.


A person's life span

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Click on "Birth" to click though the screens.
Click on the "Individuals" to show TBI at different times in the life span.

The implications for the person and their life are very different depending on when a TBI occurs.

 

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Daily life activities

Activities in daily life can include:

  • Personal care tasks (eg showering, grooming, toileting and personal
    hygiene)
  • Mobility – ‘getting around’ – including road sense, using transport
  • Meal and snack preparation
  • Laundry, house cleaning, home maintenance
  • Shopping
  • Paying bills and budgeting
  • Taking medication reliably
  • Using the telephone
  • Securing property and valuables
  • Dealing with emergencies
  • Organising activity for the week

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:

  • Memory
  • Planning and organising
  • Concentration
  • Physical abilities
  • Communication
  • Energy and motivation
  • Self monitoring
  • Anger management
  • Problem solving

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