The rehabilitation of patients with acquired brain damage is more effective coordination of health and social services.

-the health care system responds in the critical phase of patients with acquired brain damage, but forget their social reintegration needs

-director of the brain injury, José Ignacio Quemada Ubis Menni services network, underlines that social resources should respond to the various levels of unit posed by patients

Santander, 2011-October the health system ensures a reasonably homogeneous and high quality care in the initial stages of the treatment of patients with acquired brain damage (DAC) when the patient is in critical condition and survival is the primary objective. After that time, care is uneven in the areas of rehabilitation, and tends to lack when the needs are of social reintegration. For this reason, it is important to establish a coordination of all health and social services to improve their effectiveness.

These demonstrations have been conducted by the psychiatrist and director of the Menni services network of brain injury, José Ignacio Quemada (Ubis), during the day technical assistance to people with disabilities by the system for the autonomy and the attention to the unit, held the last Tuesday, October 18 in the Palace of the Magdalena of Santander.

The talk, he recalled the IMSERSO promoted in September 2006, the Constitution of a group of experts in caring for people with brain damage, and entrusted them the task of creating a document framework on the model of care for people with brain damage.

In this sense, burnt, one of the promoters, has indicated that this group of people came from areas such as public health, health private entities without spirit of profit, own IMSERSO centers, social service providers and representatives of the Federation of associations of victims and family of people with brain damage.

This diversity of views and experiences intended to facilitate the preparation of a document which provide care to these people from the moments in which begins rehabilitation, and while they are in need of support in their social reintegration. The objective was double, on the one hand to define and describe the problem of acquired brain damage, and secondly propose care pathways and resources.

The Aita Menni expert has stressed also that is trying to give continuity to the service started in the hospital of Montemayor and adjust the objectives at the different stages through which pass the person with brain injury and his family ”.

Requires complete the network of services, and secondly, to ensure coordinated operation. Given that the responsibility of care can go to rest in various health and social services, and even administrations (regional and local) or totally different regional ministries (health and social welfare) ”, has pointed out.

In this regard, emphasizes that resources social will require these people have to respond to the various levels of dependence pose. The range includes day centres, programmes of reintegration, occupational workshops, residences, protected apartments and home care ”.

Patients with DAC

The Group of people with brain damage includes two groups: head injuries and strokes, also known as a stroke. The rest of the diseases that cause brain damage in adults are quantitatively less important but pose very similar care demands: brain tumors with prospect of survival, both the primary and metastases, infections, usually herpes encephalitis and, last but not least, the brain, secondary anoxias heart stops, drowning or poisoning.