We also have fact sheets available for families living with a Brain Injury. Contact us to request any of the following fact sheets, or simply click on the links below:
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Adapting your home
Ways in which you can make your home a safer and easier to manage environment for a family member with disability.
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Assessing complementary & alternative treatments
Discusses the difference between conventional, complementary and alternative treatment.
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Changes in thinking & behaviours
Describes the types of changes that can occur in thinking and behaviour due to Brain Injury and strategies to help manage.
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Continence problems
Explains the different types of incontinence, causes, diagnosis, treatments and management.
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Coping with stress
Helps carers to recognise the symptoms of stress and provides strategies on how to avoid and manage stress.
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Driving
Discusses specific problems that can affect driving, driving assessments and ways of handling a family member who is no longer safe to drive.
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Eating & swallowing problems
Discusses how brain injury can affect swallowing, nutrition and hydration.
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Grief & loss
Discusses the many losses associated with chronic conditions that challenge people with these conditions, their families and their carers.
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Intimacy & sexual activity
Discusses how intimacy, sexual activity and sexuality can be affected by chronic conditions that involve brain damage.
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Legal & financial matters
Highlights a number of legal and financial matters such as making wills, powers of attorney and guardianship, managing finances and financial assistance.
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Lifting & moving
Describes techniques for helping a person with physical disabilities to walk, sit, stand and move.
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Respite & residential care
Describes the different forms of respite care and residential care and how to access them.
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Speech & communication problems
Describes the effects that Brain Injury, dementia and hearing loss can have on speech and communication, and provides strategies that may assist.
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Supporting children & grandchildren
Describes how to help children cope with the illness of a parent or grandparent.
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Understanding the nervous system
Tells you about the different parts of the nervous system - the brain, spinal cord and nerves.
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Vision problems
Describes the ways a neurological condition or Brain Injury can affect a person's vision and strategies and therapies to assist.
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