Mountain Province State Polytechnic College, Philippines
Commentary
Journeying the Life of a Post-Stroke Person
Author(s): Georgina P. Maskay*
Stroke brings about challenges that include psychosocial or cognition that may result in non-compliance as well as learning difficulties which interfere with the individual's speed of recovery thereby placing a burden on care or family. Additionally, it could also increase the financial burden to meet medical costs, increased dependence on caregivers, and decrease their capacity to participate fully in social activities. The qualitative study specifically the case study design utilized the phenomenological approach to explore the experiences of a post-stroke person. The unit that is being studied is the family and the post-stroke person who was clinically diagnosed with stroke with comorbidities. Getting to know ME, being hopeful, and being helpless are the three aspects of the life of a stroke person. On the other hand, being helpless where there was a feeling of maltreatment, fi.. View More»
