Introduction

This project takes a step towards educating future health-care professionals about providing equitable, integrated, and interprofessional care for people with stroke who are transitioning out of the hospital and into the community.

This experiential learning activity contains an interactive journey map that depicts the experiences of people living with stroke, caregivers, and healthcare staff through three phases of the healthcare continuum:

1. Acute Inpatient Hospital Care
2. Community Rehabilitation
3. Transition and Community Reintegration

Video narratives of patients and caregivers illustrate their experiences across each phase of care, helping learners understand and reflect on the nuanced, complex, and diverse realities within the current healthcare system. The narratives that are shared highlight the value of an equitable, integrated, interprofessional approach to community-based stroke care. The activity also incorporates valuable insights gained through focus groups with interprofessional stroke team members, and integrates case studies into each phase to support students in critically analyzing the evolving needs of the characters throughout the care continuum.