Guide for Families

Understanding Brain Injury: Guide for the Family

Brain injury is a life-altering event that affects virtually every area of a person's life—including his or her relationship with family members and others close to him or her.

Mayo Clinic has prepared a booklet to help families learn more about TBI and adjust to these new conditions: Understanding Brain Injury: Guide for Family (available in PDF format—requires Adobe Acrobat Reader), and Understanding Brain Injury: Guide for Family in Spanish.

This booklet contains information on the following topics:

• The structure and function of the human brain
• The causes of brain injury
• The recovery process
• Behavior, communication, fatigue, and other changes after brain injury