Wrong,  wrong,  wrong. Survivors need rehab protocols that deliver 100% recovery. This secondary problem wouldn't exist except for the complete failure of your stroke hospital in getting survivors recovered. Address the correct problem.  

Case study: ‘Survivors need more support after leaving hospital‘

Retired engineer Martin Hally has spoken of the intense struggle faced by many stroke survivors who are denied the chance to rebuild their lives because of a lack of support and therapy.
Mr Hally (74), from Dalkey, in Dublin, suffered a stroke while he was a patient in St Vincent‘s Hospital.
“I had enjoyed great health but one morning my wife noticed I was holding a spoon awkwardly and I felt drowsy.
“I was taken by ambulance to hospital and they found I had a transient ischaemic attack (TIA), or mini stroke.
“I was just about to be discharged from hospital when I suffered a full-blown stroke.”
The stroke affected his left side and he had to learn to walk again, helped by the physiotherapy and occupational therapy he received after being discharged to the Royal Hospital in Donnybrook for a few weeks.
“I left and was walking successfully with a stick.”
However, he believes that stroke survivors are denied the chance to reach their full potential in recovery because of a lack of rehab services in hospital and the community.
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“It is something voiced by many survivors who attend the Irish Heart Foundation (IHF) support group in Dún Laoghaire, which provides us with a great chance to meet and share our experience.”

The IHF has pointed out that a stroke patient‘s life may be saved but they typically start to regress through poor access to basic therapies in hospital.
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In therapy terms, patients “effectively walk off a cliff after they pass through the hospital gates – virtually no vital physical, communication or psychological services are available unless they can afford to pay themselves”.
Mr Hally echoed the warning, saying: “I don‘t regard myself as sick. But I have found it very difficult to get physiotherapists who specialise in stroke.
“The services are very thin on the ground.”
He has suffered cellulitis, a form of infection in his foot, and also from muscle tightening on his left side.
“When you are dependent on others your life collapses. We need more help to get us more mobile. I can walk about 50 metres with great difficulty.
“But once stroke survivors leave hospital they seem to be largely forgotten about. It makes good economic sense to provide these supports in order to prevent people unnecessarily becoming a burden on society.”

Irish Independent