Mental rehabilitation can include a range of disabling conditions, from severe and enduring psychotic or bipolar disorders to more transient affective disorders. The concept of rehabilitation reflects the concept of disability. If the concept of mental illness is viewed as a mechanism for social control, then we can say that one of the most powerful aspects of the medicalization of the individu...

BACKGROUND Stroke complications can occur not only in the acute ward but also during the subsequent rehabilitation period. However, existing studies have not adequately addressed the incidence of various complications among stroke in patients undergoing rehabilitation using a longitudinal method. We aimed to investigate the longitudinal impact of age on complication rates in patients undergoing...

conclusions the results of this study show that applying cbr programs in the rural and remote areas can be effective in improving the qol of people with physical disability. results data were analyzed using spss software. the results demonstrated a significant difference in qol between the two groups (p > 0.002). participants in the cbr program group showed a higher level of qol compared with t...

introduction: age-related decreases in cognitive functions such as executive functions are a common phenomenon. cognitive rehabilitation with two main approaches, compensation and remediation, is used to help elderlies coping with these deficits. despite reported benefits, there are doubts on the efficacy of each of these approaches. we tried to provide effective computerized cognitive tasks as...