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The article is focused on social work with persons after brain damage. A brain damage caused both by a disease or by an injury constitutes a problem in the whole society. The coverage of follow-up care for persons after brain damage and for their families, provided by social service organizations, is often difficult particularly from the perspective of availability, quality of financial demandingness of such services. The motive to research this issue consisted in the assumption that people after acquired brain da...

Introduction Between 2010 – 2013 there were 255 478 patients with brain stroke in the Czech Republic (app. 2% from the Czech population). According to the WHO, in 2012 (the latest data) 6,7 million people all over the world died from stroke in 2012 (which represent 11,9 % of all deaths) – it can be called a silent [1]. This study is aimed at Coordinated Rehabilitation for people after brain stroke and it is supported by the Grant Agency of the University of South Bohemia (reg. No. 138/20146/S) with topic “Coordina...