Caring Models in Geriatric Rehabilitation

Geriatric Rehabilitation

Rehabilitation focuses on enhancing function and minimizing disability by means of various therapeutic interventions. Goals include optimizing quality of life and functional independence. Geriatric rehabilitation addresses not only impairments stemming from acute events, such as stroke or hip fracture, but also the deleterious effects of chronic diseases and gradually progressive disability. A ...

Geriatric Rehabilitation

Rehabilitation focuses on the functional outcomes of pathologic processes and uses a variety of therapeutic interventions to restore function. Geriatric rehabilitation differs from rehabilitation in younger persons in that many older patients suffer from multiple conditions that interact to produce disability. 1 Hence, an understanding of the disablement process is critical to rehabilitation of...

Geriatric orthopaedic surgery & rehabilitation.

Geriatric rehabilitation. 4. Physical medicine and rehabilitation interventions for common age-related disorders and geriatric syndromes.

UNLABELLED This self-directed learning module highlights physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM and R) interventions for age-related physiologic changes. It is part of the study guide on geriatric rehabilitation in the Self-Directed Physiatric Education Program for practitioners and trainees in PM and R and geriatric medicine. This article specifically focuses on PM and R interventions (inclu...

Changes in geriatric rehabilitation: a national programme to improve quality of care. The Synergy and Innovation in Geriatric Rehabilitation study

OBJECTIVE To describe changes in the health service delivery process experienced by professionals, patients and informal caregivers during implementation of a national programme to improve quality of care of geriatric rehabilitation by improving integration of health service delivery processes. STUDY SETTING Sixteen skilled nursing facilities. STUDY DESIGN Prospective study, comparing three...