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When cognitive changes lead to social isolation

My memory issues from my brain injury mean I forget important conversations and my family has started excluding me from decisions, saying it is easier this way.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The practical adaptations that families make to accommodate disability can inadvertently recreate the very exclusion they meant to prevent.

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