Question

Describe how acquired brain injury can affect the family

Answer 1

The person who sustains acquired brain injury is not the only person who suffers, but all the family members are affected. The most affected person in the family is primary caregiver.

Different families react and deal the situation differently, Sometimes acquired brain injury can challenge their parents as the patient will be dependent and this can lead to a great deal of anxiety, and parents need to make a complicated decisions about how much independence the patient can manage safely

Family members may find less time for themselves and struggle planning alternate for travelling, attending parties, functions and find financial difficulties, role changes of the family members and find lack of support from family members and friends and they may experience anxiety, guilt, anger and frustration.

Caregivers may experience social isolation as their personal life shrinks as most of their time spent in caring the patient