Brain Injury

What is Brian Injury?

Acquired brain injury (ABI) is a term used to describe all brain injuries that may occur from birth onwards.

Acquired brain injuries can be described as traumatic or non-traumatic

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) can be caused by a sudden and often severe head injury. TBI can result from an impact injury or when an object pierces the skull and enters the brain. Symptoms of can be mild, moderate, or severe, depending on the extent of the damage to the brain tissue.

Non-Traumatic Brain Injury causes damage to the brain through internal factors, including:

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Stroke,

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Aneurysm,

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Tumour,

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Infectious disease that affects the brain (for example: meningitis),

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Lack of oxygen supply to the brain (for example: a heart attack).

How we can support you?

Care at Home Group can work with you to develop and deliver a tailored package of care to meet your needs, enabling you to live a happy and fulfilled life in the safety and comfort of your own home.

To underpin this, we adopt a partnership approach to working with local authorities, NHS services, multidisciplinary teams, therapists, and other community bodies involved in a person’s care. This ensures that we are well-informed and can provide continuity of care, responding efficiently to changing needs and strengthening care provision when required to do so.

Our aim is for you to live your life to your maximum potential and our carers will support you with a plan that ensures you can enjoy activities and as much socialisation as you wish. We will encourage you to learn new skills and engage in new hobbies to make life stimulating and meaningful. As a user of our specialist complex care services, you can opt for a live-in carer or daily visiting carer so that you can remain in your own home.

Our clinical nurse specialists monitor the progress of every client we provide care for, to ensure our personal assistants are supporting our goal of long-term positive rehabilitation.