BRAINWAVES

Having to adapt to the dramatic changes brought by COVID-19 has been a major hardship for many Americans trying to hold on to a job and stay afloat. However, for those with life changing disabilities, the dramatic upheavals of 2020 may have brought a bit of a silver lining.

It has been said that leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. Fortunately for the Brain Injury Alliance of Arizona (BIAAZ), the medical professionals leading the way are united in their efforts to make a tremendous impact in the communities they serve.

In this installment of our summer series, we will get you up to speed on Marketplace Health Insurance (Affordable Care Act) — what it is and where to find help.

In this installment of our summer series, we will get you up to speed on Medicare — what it is and where to find help.

This article is part of our new Summer Series lineup that will take you through the ins and outs of some common government benefits programs that many people utilize post-brain injury, including SSDI, SSI, Medicaid, Medicare, and more!

Living with brain injury can be hard. Getting Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) can also be difficult. Having a brain injury and qualifying for either can be a rocky road…if you do it alone.

There are often common safety recommendations to minimize risks of slips, trips, and falls. In some cases, these “common sense” approaches can be quite helpful for the Neuro-typical individuals, but for those who have sustained a brain injury, there is a multitude of complicating factors that cause imbalance and simple fall prevention solutions are inadequate.

Recently two brain injury survivors, Cazoshay Ward and Laura Johnson, had the unique experience of sharing their stories with medical students at the Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine, a Midwestern University satellite campus in Tempe.