Projet de vie individualisé en foyer d'accueil médicalisé (FAM)

A brain trauma victim who moves into a medical care home has to cope with the new challenge of re-inventing a life project. It is crucial to help these residents develop their own individualized life project, capable of leading them into their new relationship with family and community. Normally, each individual creates his/her own life project, sculpting it personally. In the context of brain damage, the patient entering our Maule Medical Care Home (Foyer d'acceuil médicalisé de Maule, FAM) has the problem of confronting past experience with a new reality. When accompanying these persons, the objective is to preserve coherence with their past life, helping them mend the wounds of their shattered, social, and often familial environment. Support must be patient-centered, enabling the patient and family to cope with the new situation and accept the new perspectives. This coherence must be maintained daily even with the large number and variety (medical, social, educative) of supportive interventions. There is also the question of time, which despite the variable length of the stay, is an essential notion. Setting up a timetable for the different interventions coupled with a period of evaluation, enables the healthcare team, the patient and the family to evaluate the evolution and progress towards implementing a new life plan.