They are written off because the appalling full recovery rate is only 10%. The rehabilitation silo is not where the focus should be on helping survivors. In order to help survivors we need to limit the damage that occurs during the first week in the neuronal cascade of death. That would allow the existing rehabilitation pushed by therapists to get most patients close to normal functioning. But until a strategy is written up and followed for how to attack all the problems in stroke will anything useful get done.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/31/stroke-survivors-being-written-off-care-homes
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