Kessler Foundation Disability Rehabilitation Research And Employment

A Caregiver's Challenges - Resilience, Self-Care, and Love

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Welcome to another Kessler Foundation podcast! In this episode, Jessica Ganga our Communications & Digital Media Coordinator, and Joan Banks-Smith our creative producer had the opportunity to speak with Ali Welch, mother, school teacher, and caregiver to her husband Pete who was diagnosed with traumatic brain injury as a result of a traumatic event. Ali is a former participant in one of our traumatic brain injury studies and supporter of the Foundation’s work. She talks about her caregiving role, first as a 23-year-old girlfriend and now as a wife. She also describes how she manages the daily challenges of caregiving. Learn more about Jessica Ganga, kesslerfoundation.org/about-us/found…/jessica-ganga and Joan Banks-Smith, kesslerfoundation.org/aboutus/Joan%20Banks-Smith For information about the Foundation’s caregiver studies, go to kesslerfoundation.org/research/studies/caregiver or our traumatic brain injury research, go to https://kesslerfoundation.org/research/center-traumatic-brain-injury Caregiver