For individuals finding it difficult or impossible to live independently after a traumatic brain injury (TBI), spinal cord injury (SCI), or other neurologic, catastrophic or challenging diagnosis, including those...
Continue Reading »Speech-language therapy is generically, and at NeuLife, a clinically relevant service that assesses, diagnoses, rehabilitates and helps to prevent communication and swallowing disorders. Speech, language and swallowing disorders arise from a variety of causes, such as stroke, traumatic brain injury and other catastrophic injuries. Strokes are a very common cause of swallowing disorders. Although seeming […]
Continue ReadingRehabilitative services are very different from hospital care. Traumatic brain injuries or catastrophic accidents lead to residual impairments beyond hospital level (acute) care. Residential or inpatient environment can address these impairments. A residential rehabilitation environment, like NeuLife, focuses on physical, cognitive, emotional, behavioral and functional improvements. It focuses on establishing goals for an individual to […]
Continue ReadingBefore sustaining one of the many types of catastrophic injuries for which NeuLife provides specialized post-acute rehabilitation, toiling in a kitchen or in a laundry room was probably viewed as drudgery. But, just as your life, or the life of a loved one, has changed in many other ways since the catastrophic injury, the way […]
Continue ReadingCognitive therapy is a type of psychotherapy. Developed primarily by Aaron T. Beck, it is based on the proposition that thoughts, behavior and feelings are connected to one another. It hypothesizes that individuals can overcome their challenges, meet their goals and achieve greater well being by changing the way they think and how they view […]
Continue ReadingAn individual who has experienced a traumatic brain injury (TBI) often has difficulties with social skills. Social skills include assertiveness, social communication and problem- solving skills. An individual who has suffered a TBI may have challenges with social interactions due to changes in his or her behaviors and emotions as a result of the injuries. […]
Continue ReadingIt is the mission of NeuLife as an organization to provide a comprehensive program of neurologic rehabilitation to support and promote the improvement of the quality of life for our patients.
As with all NeuLife provisions and specialized services, clients and designated family members and/or legal guardians participate in the referral, assessment and admission process. All services provided and those offered to our clients are arranged and coordinated by our care coordinators and are all-inclusive in a comprehensive per diem specific to each client.
