What is it about?
Managing one's finances can be difficult. Having a brain injury can be difficult. We talked with adults living with brain injury to understand the activity process in managing finances when living with brain injury. In the articles we present the Financial Management Activity Process (FMAP) framework.
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Why is it important?
People living with brain injury are financially vulnerable and successfully managing one's finances when living with a chronic condition, such as brain injury, is as important, if not more so, as it is to the general population. We need to understand the processes people living with brain injury face/use in order to develop good assessments (so we can identify those having difficulties) and interventions (so we can offer evidence based help to those having difficulties).
Perspectives
This was the last study of my PhD dissertation. Completing the study actually totally changed my own perspective about how health and social professionals should be viewing financial management assessment and interventions. The idea of trusted strategy use, that fits within the constraints of the person in their environment doing an financial activity as they want to, I think should start to be the way we head. Is having assessments that focus just on counting coins, writing cheques, etc. in an isolated clinical environment really validly capturing the whole financial picture?
Lisa Engel
University of Manitoba
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This page is a summary of: Financial Management Activity Process: Qualitative inquiry of adults with acquired brain injury, Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, May 2019, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0008417419833839.
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