STILL TO CHANGE
Rehabilitation (also called ‘rehab’) is a hospital where your parent may go to try to re-learn skills they could do before. Sometimes these skills can be re-learnt, some cannot.
Skills that often need to be re-learnt after a brain injury are:
- Talking
- Moving
- Thinking
- Behaving
- Memory
- Showering and dressing
- Toileting
Many staff members will be involved throughout rehabilitation, this is because they all help in different ways. All of the activities (called therapy) your parent does helps them to have the best chance of recovery after their brain injury.
Many children wonder what their parent does in rehabilitation and what their days are like. You can use the timetable below to write down therapy sessions, when you will be visiting or going to school.
Rehabilitation can involve you and your family too.
How long your parent stays in rehabilitation, depends on their brain injury, how much help they need and how well they responded to therapy. Some people stay for weeks, others stay for months.
Some people can discharge home from rehabilitation. Others need lifetime care and support outside of the home in a safe house, with trained staff and special equipment.
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