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Brain damages and injuries with their frequency and high mortality constitute one of the most serious diseases both in the world and in the Czech Republic. The individual who has suffered a brain damage faces a number of socio-economic changes. The precondition for full social integration of such individual is timely care and cooperation of individual professionals on the given case. But such cooperation and interconnection among professionals is often missing in subsequent organizations, which may slow down the i...

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...

After coming from the hospitals to their families, the patients after brain injury miss mutual cooperation of professionals from social and health sphere - i.e. application of principles of coordinated rehabilitation (including timeliness, continuity, comprehensiveness, coordination, availability, individual and psychological approach and repeated inter-professional assessment). The missing mutual cooperation of professionals from social and health sphere hinders a coordinated and comprehensive rehabilitation of s...