Young Stroke segment on Channel 10 The Project
Thank you Channel 10 The Project, Tommy Little and Bree who talked about young stroke on Sunday and shared the F.A.S.T. message.
Young stroke is only now beginning to get the attention deserves. There are an estimated 142,500 working-age Australians living with the impact of stroke and currently 20 strokes a day impacting Australians of working-age. The numbers are staggering.
We know young adults want to regain their independence, return to work, return to their role in the family and get on with life as best they can, but current health and social services systems are not designed nor equipped to help them.
The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health are recruiting participants to provide input into the design of health services for the young stroke community to fill these gaps in care.
Participants should be young people with stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA or mini stroke) aged 18 – 55 years, or a carer (family member or significant other) of a young person with stroke or TIA.
The research team would particularly like to hear from people who have difficulty with communicating, thinking, or memory.
If you are interested and would like further information, please contact David Lawson on (03) 9035 7074; email david.lawson@florey.edu.au or Karen Borchmann email karen.borchmann@florey.edu.au
We would like to acknowledge Tim Glendinning Memorial Fund for Young Adult Stroke for their support of this project, delivering a $50,000 grant to identify current service gaps and the ways young stroke survivors and carers would prefer their needs to be met.
