Community

Having a supportive community is incredibly important in life, and in rehabilitation. Research has shown that people are more likely to engage in healthy behaviours, and stick to challenging tasks, when encouraged by a supportive network.

Research at University of Glasgow that involved stakeholders in brain injury rehabilitation highlighted the importance of social motivations for both the pursuit of meaningful activities and the use of assistive technology.

We wanted to implement this social support and motivation in neumind, so we added the community feature. This is a forum in the app, that can be switched on or off, that allows all users (survivors, family members and professionals) to contribute to topics relevant (or irrelevant!) to brain injury rehabilitation.