In the 2024 InterAct Stroke Support received a grant from the Foundations to support their Hospital Reading project. In one year they managed to work with over 154 stroke survivors in the stroke ward of the South Bristol Hospital.
In the hospitals 54.2% of the readers reported a noticeable improvement in patients mood, and a further 25.8% patients showed a considerable improvement in mood. This is an important part of the project, as depression can set in after a stroke and recent research has concluded that “post stroke depression can have an adverse effect on cognitive function, functional recovery and also survival after a stroke.