Acquired Brain Injury Community Rehabilitation
ABI Community Rehabilitation program provides a specialist service to people with a severe brain injury and their carers from the Victorian community.
Clinical service overview
We are proud to provide 3 streams to clients in the community.
This includes:
- Active, goal-directed rehabilitation
- Multi-disciplinary (2 or more allied health disciplines)
- Active therapy to work on goals developed by the client
- 12 week goal cycles
- A monitoring service
- Periodic review functional change over time
- Periodic review to prevent complications and/or monitor for potential for rehabilitation, for high dependency clients
- Public Medicare funded (no cost to the client)
- A registered NDIS service
- Multi-disciplinary (2 or more allied health disciplines)
- Maintenance supports, given or supervised by multi-disciplinary allied health team
- Interim behavior support
- Consultation to service providers who require specialist ABI advice
- NDIS funded (no cost to the client)
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Eligibility criteria:
- Client has a moderate to severe acquired brain injury of non-progressive pathology
- Client is 18 years or over
- Client must be medically stable and should have a GP willing to provide medical support (in consultation with a rehabilitation specialist available through our program).
- Client’s rehabilitation goals or carer’s needs cannot be met by another public funded community service (eg. local Community Rehabilitation Centre)
- Client will have potential to benefit from interdisciplinary intervention, by two or more Allied Health disciplines, to improve function, decrease disability, decrease level of care/ caregiver burden
Exclusion criteria:
- Primary reason for referral is return to work only
- Primary reason for referral is behaviour management only
- Medico legal assessment and report (e.g., revoking Administration Order, testamentary capacity)
- Referral for home modifications, equipment prescription, services or case management for clients recently discharged from another service or funding body (e.g. NDIS)
- Requires only medical and/or single Allied Health discipline intervention
We also accept referrals for:
- Clients who need periodic review (monitoring) in the community to establish a plan of care to prevent complications and/or monitor for potential for rehabilitation (e.g., clients with Disorder of Consciousness)
Please complete online referral and email to abicommunity&tls@alfred.org.au. Please phone (03) 9076 7423 to discuss the referral with our intake team if you have any queries regarding eligibility to the service.
- Email abicommunity&tls@alfred.org.au
- Phone (03) 9076 7423
- Fax (03) 9076 4841