Making it work: experience of living with a person who falls due to multiple sclerosis.

CONCLUSION: Next of kin who share residence and everyday life with a person with MS are affected by that person's occasional falls. They often take on the responsibility of preventing such falls and adapt their lives practically and emotionally. However, adaptation is neither always enough or always possible. In these cases, relatives often deprioritize their own needs and free time to make everyday life in the home work. Implications for rehabilitation By highlighting that next of kin also are affected by the falls of their cohabiting person with multiple sclerosis enhances the importance of fall prevention activities that should include the next of kin. Next of kin to people who occasionally fall due to multiple sclerosis can be in need of both practical and emotional support from the health care system. Enhanced information from the health care system can empower and help them to take care of themselves while managing to live with, care for, and protect the person with multiple sclerosis from falls. PMID: 30299167 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research