Life after stroke: Reconstructing everyday life

Stroke can have a major impact on a person’s life. For example a stroke may leave an individual with residual disabilities such as difficulty with walking or speech that creates considerable challenges to everyday life. While quite a lot of research has been done on how to prevent and treat stroke, comparatively little research has been undertaken on the ways in which individuals respond to strokes and how they reconstruct and manage their everyday lives after a stroke. In this study we seek to understand how individuals identify and manage the challenges and opportunities of every day life and the ways in which professionals can help their development.We are particularly interested in how individuals identify and manage risk, however, our previous research indicated that risk tended to be identified with hazard and danger.We therefore expressed risk as part of everyday life

and we provide a general account in this report.We plan to specifically highlight risk in a forthcoming paper.