Data on Brain Injury Described by Researchers at Metropolitan South Health (A Case Study Approach To Understanding the Pathway To Individualised Funded Supports Under the National Disability Insurance Scheme for Community-dwelling Individuals …): Central Nervous System Diseases and Conditions – Brain Injury

2022 OCT 07 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Fresh data on Central Nervous System Diseases and Conditions - Brain Injury are presented in a new report. According to news reporting out of Brisbane, Australia, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) offers opportunity against a historical background of underfunded and fragmented services for people with disability. For people with acquired brain injury (ABI), concerns have been raised about how they access NDIS individualised funded supports.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Metropolitan South Health, “The aim of this research was to explore how community-dwelling individuals with ABI in Queensland navigate the NDIS participant pathway to individualised funded supports. This study used a multiple case study design within a policy implementation framework. Twelve people with ABI, nine family members and eight NDIS funded and mainstream service providers participated. Data was collected from relevant NDIS documentation, health records and semi-structured interviews with individuals with ABI, family members, and service providers. The current study highlighted the complexity of navigating the NDIS participant pathway of access, planning, implementation and review for people with ABI, their family and service providers. The NDIS pathway was impacted by the insurance and market based NDIS model itself, time, communication, and the requirement for external supports. Equally, the process was affected by environmental factors, individual person and injury factors as well as service providers, with a range of outcomes evident at the individual, family and system level. Findings suggest that the NDIS has struggled to make specific allowance for people with ABI and the complexity of their disabilities.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Providing people with ABI access to the NDIS Complex Support Needs Pathway may redress many of the difficulties people with ABI experience accessing and using NDIS funded supports.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: A Case Study Approach To Understanding the Pathway To Individualised Funded Supports Under the National Disability Insurance Scheme for Community-dwelling Individuals With Acquired Brain Injury. Brain Impairment, 2022:1-19. Brain Impairment can be contacted at: Cambridge Univ Press, 32 Avenue Of The Americas, New York, NY 10013-2473, USA. (Cambridge University Press - www.cambridge.org; Brain Impairment - http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=BIM)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Melissa Kendall, Metropolitan South Health, Division of Rehabilitation, Acquired Brain Injury Outreach Serv Abios, Brisbane, Qld, Australia. Additional authors for this research include Michael Skinner, Ray Quinn, Judith Nance and Suzanne Wright.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1017/brimp.2022.21. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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