Abstract
Adults with mild stroke face substantial challenges resuming valued roles in the community.
The term “mild” provides false representation of the lived experience for many adults
with mild stroke who may continue to experience persistent challenges and unmet needs.
Rehabilitation practitioners can identify and consequently intervene to facilitate
improved independence, participation, and quality of life by facilitating function
and reducing the burden of lost abilities among adults with mild stroke. The Health
and Wellness Task Force identified 2 important, and often interdependent, goals that
frequently arise among adults living with mild stroke that must be addressed to facilitate
improved community reintegration: (1) return to driving and (2) return to work. Adults
with mild stroke may not be receiving adequate rehabilitative services to facilitate
community reintegration for several reasons but primarily because current practice
models are not designed to meet such needs of this specific population. Thus, the
Health and Wellness Task Force convened to review current literature and practice
trends to (1) identify opportunities based on the evidence of assessment and interventions,
for return to driving and return to work; and (2) identify gaps in the literature
that must be addressed to take advantage of the opportunities. Based on findings,
the task force proposes a new interdisciplinary practice model for adults with mild
stroke who are too often discharged from the hospital to the community without needed
services to enable successful return to driving and work.
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