Abstract The Boston Working Group on Improving Health Care Outcomes Through Geriatric
Rehabilitation was structured around four major themes:(1) defining disability or …

Geriatric rehabilitation is a multidisciplinary set of evaluative, diagnostic, and therapeutic
interventions whose purpose is to restore functional ability or enhance residual functional …

OBJECTIVES: To provide a clinically useful conceptual framework for the evaluation and
treatment of disability in older persons, to review the rehabilitation of common conditions …

Dr. Joe Dorsey of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, recently quoted Charles Dickens' A Tale of
Two Cities in characterizing the current health care scene:" It was the best of times, it was the …

Geriatric rehabilitation services have been demonstrated to improve the physiologic health,
physical functioning and quality of life of older adults with a wide range of acute and chronic …

The worldwide ageing revolution has put rehabilitation for older patients high on the agenda
of both health care policy and research. Two major policies in many developing countries …

INTRODUCTION—Disability, or limitation in the ability to carry out basic functional activities,
becomes increasingly common with advancing age. The primary purpose of rehabilitation is …

This classic textbook provides practitioners and students working in geriatric rehabilitation
an interdisciplinary approach to the assessment and rehabilitative management of older …

Outpatient geriatric rehabilitation is underdeveloped in the American health care system.
Primary care physicians must take active roles in improving the availability of rehabilitation …

METHODS A literature search was conducted on the National Library of Medicine's PubMed
database covering articles published in journals from January 2000 to June 2005. This …