Patient-to-Patient Mentorship Is a Win-Win
You’ve had a stroke. You’ve had a serious head injury. You’ve had a spinal cord injury. You’ve developed a serious neurological deficit. Your physical abilities are not what they were due to any of these. Your doctors tell you that, from a medical and functional standpoint, you are as well as you can reasonably expect to get.
All of that might be true. The acute or immediate care that you received and the rehabilitation that followed has been very useful; without them, you may not have lived. But what you need now is something very different. It includes the ability to look at much of what you have been through very differently.
Some people call this new way of looking at things a “paradigm shift.” In your case, the “paradigm shift” has to do with looking at the next stage of your life—not a lesser stage, but a different one. Because your life is different now. It is the full life that NeuLife helps you to achieve through its innovative care.
Some of the clients at NeuLife will become your mentors and help you to adjust. Not because they have to, but because they want to. They appreciate the adjustment you have to make to this new stage of life. They made it, too.
One of the ways that NeuLife and your mentors help you into this new stage is by understanding that you had predecessors and will have followers who had and who will have similar physical conditions. A whole community of people have benefited from all that NeuLife has to offer. You will meet people new to NeuLife with whom you have therapy, people to whom you are introduced and people with whom you enjoy other activities. And yes, it is okay to say, “No, not yet.” The multidisciplinary staff at NeuLife, and its clients, understand that sometimes adjustment takes time and will appreciate your privacy.
There’s another side to mentorship. It provides a whole new purpose to life to the mentor. Success breeds success. Strength breeds strength. Consider how many retired teachers return to classrooms to assist as volunteers or to mentor new teachers. Think about how many people who had addiction problems mentor others, if only by providing hope and a sense of belonging. Mentoring works similarly at NeuLife.
As your therapies, physical improvement and adjustment to the NeuLife community progress, so does your life at NeuLife.
NeuLife’s philosophy is that healing, wellness and personal fulfillment are best accomplished in a positive and uplifting therapeutic environment where caring staff encourage, assist and support each client so that he or she may achieve specific goals. NeuLife believes personal fulfillment is equally as important as goals to increase function and independence. NeuLife’s multidisciplinary team seeks to achieve, for all of its clients, maximized, sustained outcomes that exceed the expectations of all persons served. Those referred to NeuLife may stay for any established period of time, whether for short-term, long-term or respite care.
NeuLife, in Mount Dora, Florida, is a fully accessible specialized residential post-acute program providing specialized rehabilitation to individuals diagnosed with traumatic brain injury (TBI), spinal cord injury (SCI), traumatic amputations and other catastrophic injuries.
2725 Robie Avenue
Mount Dora, Florida 32757
Call: 800.626.3836
Email: Info@NeuLifeRehab.com
Visit: NeuLifeRehab.com
