Brain Injury as a Chronic Health Condition
Growing evidence demonstrates brain injury can be a chronic, dynamic health condition with persistent health and psychosocial issues. Chronic brain injury requires a comprehensive model for proactive management encompassing health system modifications, professional education, self-management strategies for individuals and caregivers and community-based services and supports. This presentation will review data supporting chronic brain injury as a dynamic condition, describe components of a so-called “disease management” approach and share progress and plans for a project intended to develop a proactive model for lifelong management of brain injury.