Osborne Park Hospital

Volunteer services will be expanding at Osborne Park Hospital (OPH) next month, with past aphasia patients meeting with current patients from our Stroke Rehabilitation ward to share their experiences to assist others with their recovery. The volunteers are part of iDecide, an aphasia-based volunteer Consumer Advisory Group formed at OPH in 2021 under the guidance of the OPH Speech Pathology Department. Aphasia is a condition that occurs as a result of damage to the language centre of the brain with one in three people experiencing aphasia after a stroke. It can affect a person's ability to communicate, including speech, understanding, reading and writing; it does not affect intelligence. iDecide group member and former stroke patient Jamie said he was excited at the prospect of expanding the group's services to meet with other patients with aphasia. “We know what they are going thr...

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