Disabled Adult Day Care centre for social rehabilitation and integration of people with severe Acquired Brain Injury
The Disabled Adult Day care Centre is a daytime service for people with a severe acquired disability whose fragile state jeopardizes their independence in everyday activities. The project involves a customized rehabilitation plan that includes educational activities, social, health and welfare, with the objective of identifying and strengthening residual abilities, of encouraging socialisation, leading the construction of a new self-image and maintaining and improving relations with family members and one’s social network.
The services promote the activation of a link between the hospital and social reintegration by providing relief to the family, allowing people to “experience themselves” and, with psychological and group work support, to once again face everyday activities, thereby enabling them to integrate into society.
The intervention
The activities include:
- Rehabilitation: improving skills for living in a community, personal hygiene, indoor and outdoor orientation, use of PCs and media;
- Practical activities: individual or group work aimed at acquiring and enhancing simple operative processes and the tools to communicate (assembly, printable cardboard and paper workshops and computer training);
- Expressive activities: carried out in small groups, the goal is to share personal experiences, redefine one’s identity and regain awareness of one’s body (workshop on emotions, autobiographical laboratory and body awareness workshop);
- Cognitive rehabilitation: the aim is to improve the individual capacity to focus attention, to orientate in space and time, to tell time and to spend money;
- Recreational activities: the focus is on socialisation;
- Psychological support to the person and their family.
