Raising Awareness for Brain Injury Awareness Month

This week, we want to recognize Brain Injury Awareness Month, which is happening this March! The Brain Injury Association of America is hosting events online and in-person throughout the month to raise awareness and build community.

The BIAA specifies that “An acquired brain injury (ABI) is an injury to the brain that is not hereditary, congenital, degenerative, or induced by birth trauma. ” (BIAA). An acquired brain injury is caused by internal factors (like tumors), but a traumatic brain injury is caused by external factors (like a car crash or a fall).

While individuals with a brain unjustly don’t typically require nursing services, they may benefit from PCA care, or similar kinds of assistance. Communities of Care is happy to support community awareness and advocacy!

In the News, Legislation and Community Action

March 21, 2023

Joan Vaughn

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Written by Joan Vaughn

I’m Joan, and I know home care from the inside out. I’ve navigated my daughter through 24/7 home care nursing and managed her PCA’s. I’ve helped my parents move into (and out of) assisted living, Medicare episodes, skilled nurse visits, home health aids, and PCAs. Sandwiched in all of that, I’ve helped coordinate home care equipment and supplies, physical therapists, occupational therapists, county workers, and medications (oh, the medications). I know emergency departments, children’s hospitals, cancer wards, cardiac floors, and specialty units. I can recite health insurance policies (and call their bluff). I know a lot of other things in life too, like Shakespeare, where to sit to see a great sunset over a lake, how to keep myself healthy, how to read a profit/loss statement and state statutes, when to use a comma, and that gratitude is one of the keys to success. So I’m going to have this blog and write about home care from time to time. I’ll include topics like current legislation, professional boundaries in a tricky environment, and being a caregiver. I’ll also post some guest blogs from clients and nurses. Join me in the conversation.

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