Opinion
The role of a case manager is to manage a “collaborative process of assessment, planning, facilitation, care co-ordination, evaluation and advocacy for options and services to meet an individual’s and family’s comprehensive health needs through communication and available resources to promote quality cost effective outcomes[1].” The role of a Claimant solicitor in the litigation process is to represent the needs of the injured person and to manage all phases of the litigation towards settlement or trial. It is a process of collating and presenting the evidence that is required to ensure that the award agreed between the parties or made by the Court is fair and correct.
Being discharged from the Court of Protection after a brain injury can be a long and arduous journey. It was especially long for Rebecca Gilmore, however, given that her brain injury was never detected or addressed until several years after the incident that caused it. Her life changed at 11 years old when she was [...]
Of the 12 million Britons living with disability, only one in six takes part in sport regularly. Yet 70% of disabled people would like to be more active, according to a 2018 report by Activity Alliance (formerly the English Federation of Disability Sport). Through our Don’t Quit, Do Itinitiative, we have seen at close hand [...]
Sian Mara, 35, was enjoying a holiday in Cuba with her husband Jason and her 12-year-old daughter when it happened. Sian, from Chard in Somerset, recalls: “It was just a normal day, I’d been swimming and playing volleyball in the pool with my daughter, went upstairs to get ready for dinner, had a shower and then [...]
The shuffling and whispers of the conference crowd ceased entirely when Yorkshireman Stephen shared his story. The brain injury survivor recalled the last thing his wife ever said to him before the overdose that killed her. “I just want my old Steph back”, he quoted to a watching audience of delegates. Even battle-hardened brain injury [...]
Fatigue is a subjective phenomenon – it cannot be measured objectively. It can be caused or exacerbated by depression, anxiety and stress, as well as a lack of regular and restorative sleep, chronic pain, seizure-related fatigue, hydrocephalus and hormonal abnormalities like hypothyroidism. Nutritional deficiencies (e.g. B12), anaemia and serious illness such as leukaemia, renal failure and hepatitis [...]
Over 90% of case managers in the brain injury field would recommend their career to others - and more than seven in 10 say they enjoy their job. This is well above the UK national average and on par with the satisfaction levels found among the clergy, teachers and chief executives, says Nockolds Solicitors. It [...]
Exemplar care homes provide a home for a range of adults with complex needs and offer both end of life and long-term care for their service users. There can sometimes be the small ‘miracles’ for some families where their loved ones are placed in Exemplar homes cfor end of life care and they defeat the [...]
The world around me began to spin, and the dizziness became unbearable. I collapsed. It was the start of my lengthy journey to a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, and last year, a stem cell transplant for my MS. My last major relapse in 2016 – with a lesion on the brain stem - left me unable to [...]
An in-depth study conducted in the US and submitted to the American Congress outlines many issues hindering the delivery of rehab to brain injured young people. While carried out by US-focused organisations – the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in collaboration with the National Institutes for Health – it offers insights for child brain [...]
