ImPACT: a multifaceted implementation for conversation partner training in aphasia in Dutch rehabilitation settings.

CONCLUSIONS: The motivation of professionals to involve partners in the rehabilitation process assisted with the introduction of PACT in practice. The main barrier was time, linked to the requirement to think through integration of this innovation within existing care. Longer term evaluation would ascertain how centres sustain uptake without support. Implications for Rehabilitation The integration of a new treatment method that reaches beyond the boundaries of one group of professionals needs to be facilitated by providing time to all team members involved to discuss and think through the consequences of that approach for clinical decision making within the care trajectory of a client and his/her significant other. Partners of people with aphasia need to be properly informed about the collaborative nature of communication with a view to the longer term adjustment to living with someone with aphasia. PMID: 27917691 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research