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Head Trauma Ii

NPR's Ina Jaffe has the final segment in a report on how brain injured people try to compensate for the memory loss and other cognitive disabilities they've suffered. While medical advances have saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of brain injured people, these survivors have few places to turn, and little money to pay, for this kind of difficult rehabilitaion.

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