Aphasia Caregivers Are Losing Themselves and Nobody Is Asking | #205
When the stroke happened, rehab had a plan for him. Nobody had a plan for her.
She walked out of the hospital with a packet of papers, a med list, and a stack of homework assignments — and everyone assumed she'd figure out the rest. No training. No roadmap. No one asking what she needed to keep this up for the next twenty years.
In this conversation with Roger and Justin of When Words Don't Come Easy, speech-language pathologist Genevieve Richardson talks about what aphasia care partners are really going through, what rehab professionals need to understand, and what happens in the long months…
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