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, financial burden, and self-pity greatly affects the relationship between the post-stroke person and the family. As a result of the study, health training institutions emphasize how best the psychosocial needs of post-stroke can be addressed by health personnel. Professional nurses as well as those in the academe should come up with a teaching-learning strategy for handling post-stroke persons. Counseling services should be mandatory and made available to post-stroke persons and their families hence, health institutions like the hospital to craft and implement a policy to address such activity. Another study is to find out how caregivers manage and how looking after a post-stroke person affects their quality of life.