The hospital discharges someone with a traumatic brain injury and hands the family a packet. Follow-up appointments, medication list,...
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Multiple sclerosis often arrives in someone’s 30s or 40s, sometimes earlier, usually before anyone has thought seriously about home...
Most mornings, a parent in Silver Spring is already running behind before the bus arrives. Their adult child with...
She had been getting herself dressed every morning for 40 years. Same order, same method, same amount of time....
Most stroke survivors leave the hospital within a week. Discharge papers come, transport is arranged, and then the person...
The appointment was yesterday. The crowded waiting room, the long drive, the schedule that got thrown off. Now it...
You visit your father and he looks at you the way he’d look at someone delivering a package. He’s...
The routine runs on a schedule only one person fully understands. Drop-off at the day program is at 8:45,...
It usually starts at night. You finally get a few hours to yourself, the house is quiet, and you...
For many families, arranging in home care for autistic adults raises a question that is harder than it looks:...