Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Care Services

What is a ABI?

An acquired brain injury (ABI) is an injury caused to the brain since birth.

There are many possible causes, including a fall, a road accident, tumour and stroke (for more information in Stroke care click here). The brain is made up of different areas. The effect of any brain injury will depend on the area that has been damaged. Some examples are below.

• The Parietal Lobe is responsible for spatial awareness, spelling, perception and manipulation of objects.
• The Occipital Lobe controls vision.
• The Frontal Lobe is responsible for personality, planning, organising, emotional and behavioural control, attention, problem solving, social skills and conscious movement.
• The Temporal Lobe is responsible for memory, recognising faces, generating emotion and language.
• The Broca Area controls expressive language.
• The Wernike Area controls understanding language.

How we can help

We have assisted many people to regain lost skills so they feel more able and safer in their home.

A Brain injury doesn’t just affect individuals; it can transform the lives of an entire families. You may have to make considerable changes to the way you live but we can support your whole family. Our aim is to:

• Help you regain any skills lost by your brain injury
• Enable you to become more confident and self-reliant and need less support
• Be safe and confident so you can do the things you enjoy and continue to recover through our rehabilitative support
  

What we can do

Our kind, compassionate, experienced care staff can support you with:

• Rehabilitation / reablement support planned with you and focusing on your needs
• Start your day off well with reablement activities to help you wash, dress and have breakfast
• Practically tasks such as doing the shopping, laundry and house work so you use your energy on your reablement exercises with your carer
• Prepare nutritious meals helping you to eat and drink
• A night call to settle you safely and comfortably into bed if required
• Emotionally it’s important to starting going out and we can be your support in those early days
  

Rehabilitation and independence

Rehabilitation aims to help the brain learn alternative ways of working in order to minimise the long-term impact of the brain injury. Rehabilitation also helps the survivor and the family to cope successfully with any remaining disabilities.

Our team includes Occupational Therapists, Nurses and physiotherapists. We ensure that all our care staff are skilled and can follow our rehabilitation / reablement programmes to help you back to independence.

To maximise recovery, reablement needs to be completed regularly and as you recover hopefully you will be able to complete your programmes yourself.

Communication tools

Some people have difficulty with communication after a brain injury and this can be very frustrating. Our staff will use a range of different communication methods and tools to help you express yourself and assist with your speech therapy programme.

Adapting to your progress

Our managers will liaise with your hospital team, regularly review your progress and will change activities in conjunction with the primary care team when required and as you become more able. 

At Dependability, our focus is on reablement as well as caring. Our staff are trained in your needs and will value your dignity. You will have a trained and dedicated team to support you.

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