Facts and Figures
There is hardly a family in the country that hasn’t been touched by acquired brain injury, including through a stroke, road traffic accident, fall, tumour or assault. 52 people in Ireland acquire a brain injury every single day, yet it remains a hidden phenomenon in our society.
By understanding and learning more about brain injury in Ireland we can fight for better services and give those impacted a voice.
Here is what we already know.
19,000
new brain injuries happen annually
10,000
people are hospitalised with traumatic brain injuries each year
120,000
people in Ireland are living with a disability after brain injury
7,500
strokes happen in Ireland every year
1,300
young people are living in nursing homes in Ireland. Many are there because of the lack of appropriate services and suitable housing in the community, and most of them are living with an acquired brain injury or stroke
Our services support 1,100+ brain injury survivors every year
33
average age of those in our services when they acquired their injury
67.5%
67.5% of survivors in our services are men
No.1
Stroke is the no. 1 cause of brain injury in our services
65%
of survivors had fewer limitations following three years in our services
21
people living in our Assisted Living houses were previously placed inappropriately in nursing homes.
Most common causes of injury within our services
Traumatic brain injury
Non-traumatic brain injury
