Successfully surviving a brain injury
Subtitle: a family guidebook : from the emergency room to selecting a rehabilitation facility
By: Garry Prowe ; foreword by Susan H. Connors
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Brain Injury Success Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Gainesville, FL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780984197439
Subjects: Brain; Patients; Wounds and injuries; Rehabilitation; Family relationships
Description: "This book--which is based upon the experience of hundreds of people living with a brain injury, their families, and the medical professionals who treat them--will answer many of your questions. It will teach you: the basics of brain injury and the recovery and rehabilitation processes ; the wide range of impairments caused by a brain injury ; ways to make this stressful and exhausting time easier for you and your family ; what you need to know about health insurance and disability pay ; how a case manager and an attorney can help you ; the factors that influence how well someone recovers from a brain injury ; how to access the wide range of resources available to the families of brain injury survivors"--Cover, p. 4.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-233) and index.