Route of Opportunities: Roadmap for comprehensive support for people with vision or hearing loss and accompanying combat injuries

The war in Ukraine has led to a growing number of veterans with combat-related sensory injuries. The current rehabilitation model is fragmented, lacks continuity, and focuses on individual services rather than a person-centered pathway, which reduces intervention efficacy and decreases the veterans' quality of life. Roadmap for the comprehensive support of individuals with sensory impairments «Route of Opportunities» is a person-centered organizational and managerial model that ensures the continuity, sequence, manageability, and agency of the rehabilitation process. It consists of two elements: An Individual rehabilitation route describes the patient's progress through 6 stages based on the dynamics of 5 health and well-being components (psychological safety, autonomy, identity, social interaction, and quality of life); A Patient Rehabilitation Profile, which serves as a tool for data recording and ensuring continuity of care. This model introduces the concept of «forms of regression manifestation» as an object of monitoring for the first time within the Ukrainian context. The Roadmap is a validated framework model that enables a transition from a fragmented «service-centric» to an integrated «route-centric» rehabilitation system. It establishes a foundation for standardizing the support of veterans with sensory injuries, provides a common language for interagency cooperation, and can serve as a basis for shaping public policy in the field of rehabilitation.