Attitudes to rehabilitation of older people, particularly in departments specializing in care of
the elderly, have become increasingly positive in recent years. A growing number of …

Rehabilitation of older adults involves an active process, delivered through a coordinated
multidisciplinary team approach, that aims to improve function and enable subjects to live …

The process of rehabilitation has been described as 'continuous and multifactorial...
dependent on multiple inputs'(Squires, 1993). These inputs are linked through working …

Geriatric Rehabilitation addresses the fact that this is an age in which individuals have
increasing longevity, better health care, education and expectations of health care which …

'When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean'. So it is with rehabilitation, except
that several definitions and explanations have been proposed. Although the similarities …

The fundamental role of nursing today is concerned with restoring health. Assisting patients
to overcome their handicaps, by helping them to return function to a part of the body or by …

Chapters include:-rehabilitation of the older person-past, present and future-disease and
disability in older people-the effectiveness of specialist interdisciplinary health care services …

Beware the phrase that trips lightly off the tongue, that seems to convey meaning but merely
conceals confusion. What is rehabilitation of the elderly? Is rehabilitation something that the …