Type of Project: Funded project Dissertation Model project
BETA-MeH - Needs-focused participation in working life for people with acquired brain damage

The difficulties of people with acquired brain damage in jobs and everyday life are complex, difficult to predict and hardly address within the framework of a standardized approach. Neurological rehabilitation problematizes job participation in phases D and E. Phase E aims at participation in jobs and everyday life. Services of all legal groups are in focus here. This creates such a complexity of social law that underuse and misuse can be observed among those affected. Furthermore, there is no comprehensive needs assessment across all phases at the beginning, so that additional interface problems exist between the phases. The centre is the testing of a Return to Work (RTW) rehab strategy for people with acquired brain damage. In the intervention, which can last up to 12 months, rehab-clinical phase is coupled with the company phase of rehabilitation. In addition, the rehabilitant is accompanied with case management. All agents including the employer are involved from the beginning. All therapeutic agents are organized in a regional network. The services within the strategy are flexibly oriented to individual needs in terms of duration. The concrete goal - more frequent job reintegration - can be made with the help of a comparison between project participants and people with acquired brain damage in the regular course of rehabilitation. The measurable goal is an increase in the return-to-work rate of 10%- points 18 months after the start of the intervention. The target group for the RTW rehabilitation strategy is people with acquired brain injury, an identified need for rehabilitation according to §10 SGB VI, and a need for continuing care after Phase D. The target group for the RTW rehabilitation strategy is people with acquired brain injury, an identified need for rehabilitation according to §10 SGB VI, and a need for continuing care after Phase D. The target group for the RTW rehabilitation strategy is people with acquired brain injury. It is planned to integrate 280 people (140 IG & 140 KG) into the project. The goal is the early comprehensive assessment of all necessary services for professional reintegration and thus a quick and stable return to the workplace. In the medium term, this will prevent additions to the reduced earning capacity pension. The project is testing the effectiveness of a cross-phase RTW rehab strategy for the defined target group for the first time. In addition, the testing will optimally determine its usefulness for routine care.