Characteristics of a rural geriatric rehabilitation service

Characteristics of a rural geriatric rehabilitation service.

The aim of this article is to examine the role of two geriatric rehabilitation units in a large rural area, and compare them with published data about rehabilitation units in urban settings. We look at the inputs to the units and the measurable outputs, including length of stay, discharge disposition of patients and changes in patient activities of daily living. We show that rehabilitation serv...

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.

The Geriatric Service

It has become necessary to revise the medical and welfare services for the ^ because of the stark facts of change in the world's population. Whereas care fof ^ elderly is not a serious problem in communities having no more than two or three p cent of old people, once that figure rises beyond a certain level the burden beC? | jp a very different matter. Respect and reverence for the aged, such a...