Rehabilitation–Educational Recovery

The members of HUPT who are suffering from quadriplegia are in very few cases able to go to some rehabilitation centre or vacation without accompanist. For them, such change (for example, going to rehabilitation centre) always implies violation of achieved level of life quality. The reason is the fact that medical staff in these centres and hospitals works on one routine way. It means that there is one, unique time for sleeping, eating, being transferred from bed to wheelchairs and back, hygiene for all persons with quadriplegia in the centre. Persons with quadriplegia deal with incontinency and manage their physiological needs on a very specific way that is adapted to their body and that way, very often, does not fit in the hospital “regime”. On the other hand, professional help or help from person with experience is required. So, if person with quadriplegia wants to escape degradation in her daily living, for staying in a rehabilitation centre, presence of personal assistant is necessary.

For some persons with quadriplegia it is a rare possibility for leaving a house, or institution, after few years. For others, it is a chance to finally go to rehabilitation once a year without a fear of a regime that violates their daily living and harm them in that way. It is also a way for their assistants to rest from a routine.

Our goal is to make possible, first of all, for persons with quadriplegia that are depending on others in daily living, to have 14 days of rehabilitation on the coast, in a suitable place with organised help of the certain assistant. At the same time, it is a direct help to persons with quadriplegia and also a kind of vacation for ones who are taking everyday care of them. Such organised rehabilitation for persons with quadriplegia and chance for their assistants to rest is a nice and motivating change and break from everyday routine.