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| Rehabilitation for brain injury patients can be lifelong. A Citizen Jury was asked for their recommendations on best care. Study |
Brain injury rehabilitation is long‐term - in fact, it can be lifelong - and not cheap. So far, little published information or debate has informed policy for service delivery in Australia.
As health budgets are finite, there are major challenges to providing the best care to people with brain injuries.
Members of the public were invited to take part in a Citizen Jury at the Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Centre in Melbourne. The ABI Centre features single-bed rooms at Caulfield Hospital and provides rehabilitation to meet the needs of people with severe brain injuries, resulting from trauma, stroke and other medical causes of acquired brain injury. The Citizen Jurists were asked, ‘What considerations are important to include in a model of care of brain injury rehabilitation?’
