MISSION - AN SAOL

AN SAOL MISSION

Life and Living with a severe Acquired Brain Injury (sABI)

To survive a severe Acquired Brain Injury is one of the most hard-hitting, life-changing events for the survivor, their families, and their friends. What makes it worse is that in Ireland families are left with no hope, basically having to fend for themselves. Shockingly, it is still accepted practice that survivors are sent to nursing homes – after a short assessment period in either an acute hospital or the country’s only National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH) – to be ‘medicated, managed, and maintained’ for the rest of their lives.

WE KNOW BETTER.

With ongoing rehabilitation, we have seen dramatic improvements in our family members when nobody believed this to be possible. And what we have experienced personally is supported by recent international research which shows that demanding mental and physical activity offers the only consistently proven means to regain function – leading to a better quality of life.

We are the families, friends, and supporters of persons affected by sABI. We have established the AN SAOL FOUNDATION and the AN SAOL PILOT PROJECT to change the hearts and minds of society to support survivors of sABI, and their families, so that they can live their life to the fullest.

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OUR PLEDGE

We will afford every opportunity to people with severe Acquired Brain Injury (sABI) to live their life with dignity and respect, to continue to improve, to regain as much independence and self-determination as possible, and for their injuries to heal, supported by adequate therapies.

“The assumption that we used to have that there are strict time windows where improvements are possible doesn’t seem to hold true in real life. The more time you give patients to rehabilitate and retrain, the more success you will see.”

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Professor Dr. Andreas BenderUniversity of Munich and Therapiezentrum Burgau

“As a country, we are considerably under resourced and under developed in terms of our neurological care services – from neurology, to neuro-rehabilitation, to long-term care.”

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Mags RogersNeurological Alliance of Ireland

“There are many people with brain injuries who are just inadequately placed and will never get rehabilitation… effectively they’re consigned to a life without quality.”

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Kieran LoughranCEO, Headway

“We individually accompany patients in all stages of recovery and support them in their healing process in an active and competent way. We are deeply convinced that our therapies can help patients to considerably improve their quality of life.”

Daniela Dorschner-GeerlofsPforzheim Center for Rehabilitation

AN SAOL MISSION

Life and Living with a severe Acquired Brain Injury (sABI)

OUR PLEDGE

We will afford every opportunity to people with severe Acquired Brain Injury (sABI) to live their life with dignity and respect, to continue to improve, to regain as much independence and self-determination as possible, and for their injuries to heal, supported by adequate therapies.

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