How stroke can affect you
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Coping with a serious health event
Booklet from beyondblue on how to keep mentally well. Being proactive can help you to prevent mental health problems from developing, as well as help in your recovery and adjustment to life after a serious unexpected health event.
Your guide to mental health and acquired brain injury
Booklet from BrainLink about common mental health problems after acquired brain injury (ABI), including depression, anxiety, psychosis, impulse control disorder and substance abuse, as well as treatment options and how to get help.
Stroke Association UK
Provides high quality, up-to-date stroke information for stroke patients, their families and carers in the UK. (Opens in a new window)
Blood pressure
Information from the Victorian government's Better Health Channel, explaining high blood pressure and how to manage it.
Heart Foundation
The Heart Foundation provides information and advice on heart conditions, treatment and recovery, and healthy living and eating.
Atrial fibrillation
Irregular pulse or irregular heartbeat is known as atrial fibrillation, or AF. Find out what it is, how to control it, and download Stroke Foundation's booklet, Living With Atrial Fibrillation.
TIA and minor stroke
Information, further resources and videos of peopletalking about their experiences of issues such as symptoms, diagnosis and impact on work and family. From the Dipex Charity in the UK.
Stroke Journey resources
Stroke Foundation's booklets and factsheets are made for survivors of stroke, family members and carers to help your transition from hospital to home and onto recovery. They include resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and for parents of babies, children or teenagers who have had a stroke.
Written by the Mob for the Mob: Stroke booklet
A stroke education booklet for Aboriginal people, produced in collaboration with the Peel and Mehi Aboriginal community, predominantly Gamilaraay/Kamilaroi Aboriginal communities, in the NSW Hunter New England Local Health District.
Post-Stroke Checklist
This checklist was developed to help you talk to your healthcare team, acting as a prompt for common problems experienced by people post-stroke. Fill it out and take it with you to each visit and raise relevant questions with your team.