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Community-Based Occupational Therapy With A Head-Injured Adult., Elizabeth Depoy
Community-Based Occupational Therapy With A Head-Injured Adult., Elizabeth Depoy
Department of Occupational Therapy Faculty Papers
In the early 1970s, the National Head Injury Foundation identified 422,000 adults with permanent brain damage caused by traumatic head injury. It is estimated that 400,000 new cases of varying severity are treated in hospitals each year, the majority of whom are previously employed young adult men. Although many persons with traumatic brain injuries are able to return to productivity, approximately 35% of the adults who have been rated as mildly head injured on the Glascow Coma Scale (Teasdale & Jennet, 1974) never return to work and have difficulty reentering society after restorative efforts are discontinued (Rosenthal, Griffith, Bond, & …