Over 1.4 million people sustain a brain injury each year in the United States. Add to that the number of returning Veterans with a brain injury and the numbers are staggering. The Brain Injury Survival Kit: 365 Tips, Tools & Tricks to Deal with Cognitive Function Loss aims to give brain injury survivors, their families and loved ones the strategies they need to improve brain function and quality of life. The book is a compendium of tips, techniques and life-task shortcuts that author Cheryle Sullivan has compiled from her personal experience. Readers will learn successful approaches to:
Over 1.4 million people sustain a brain injury each year in the United States. Add to that the number of returning Veterans with a brain injury and the numbers are staggering. The Brain Injury Survival Kit: 365 Tips, Tools & Tricks to Deal with Cognitive Function Loss aims to give brain injury survivors, their families and loved ones the strategies they need to improve brain function and quality of life. The book is a compendium of tips, techniques and life-task shortcuts that author Cheryle Sullivan has compiled from her personal experience. Readers will learn successful approaches to:
Put Your House in Order: Strive for a Healthier Lifestyle
The Game Plan
Energy
Checklists and Routines
Attention
Memory
Time Management
Organization
Communication
Transportation
Navigating the Medical Maze
Fun and Games/Brain Exercises
Safety
Resources
Index.
Cheryle Sullivan, MD, a family physician with a traumatic brain injury, offers a unique perspective on dealing with the functional impairments of brain injury.
The brain is the most important organ of the human body, and dealing with damage to it is a feat in itself. Brain Injury Survival Kit: 365 Tips, Tools, & Tricks to Deal with Cognitive Function Loss is a guide for those who are afflicted and those who are family to them. Touching on the many sorts of brain injury and the effects of each, it tackles subjects such as communication, struggling with memory, medication, and dealing with day-to-day life when it's an epic challenge to do so. Brain Injury Survival Kit is a must to have on hand when you or a family member is faced with this unfortunate injury.--Midwest Book Review""Brain injury survivor and physician offers a distinctive perspective on neurological damage and the resulting functional impairments. Among the topics discussed are word finding, medication alarms, and compensating for impaired memory function, for example by exercising one's memory by reading regularly."" -- Foreword Magazine
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