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Rehabilitation of Geriatric Patients
Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 1995To describe the role of geriatric rehabilitation, the methods of practice, and the mechanisms underlying integrated care in rehabilitation medicine.We reviewed the rehabilitation-related medical literature and outlined an approach to the evaluation of impairment in older patients and subsequent rehabilitation planning.For optimal rehabilitation of ...
D C, Weber, K C, Fleming, J M, Evans
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REHABILITATION OF GERIATRIC AMPUTEES
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1969A bstract The study group comprised 60 indigent patients (average age, 70) in a public hospital who had undergone amputations of the lower extremity, chiefly because of gangrene.
R C, Cheek, L G, Britt
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Rehabilitation and the Geriatric Patient
Nursing Clinics of North America, 1989The true challenge in the care of the elderly is to keep people at home, in the community, with a high degree of functional ability. This is beneficial to the individual and, from a financial point of view, to the community and public. Maintenance and restoration of function are best accomplished within a framework that considers the psychosocial and ...
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Geriatric Amputee Rehabilitation
Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 1993Comprehensive rehabilitation of the amputee should be more than the provision of a prosthetic device. This is especially true for the geriatric amputee, whose needs are greater because of comorbidity, fragile social supports, and limited resources.
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Geriatric rehabilitation revisited
Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 1999There is no gold standard for rehabilitation of geriatric patients. Although many studies indicate that a multifaceted team approach, such as seen with specialized stroke units, may enhance outcomes for many patients, how these units achieve this is still unclear. However, the evidence shows that a comprehensive program of both medical and psychosocial
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Motivation in Geriatric Rehabilitation
Image: the Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 1996In this study, critical ethnography was used to explore the factors that help motivate people in a geriatric rehabilitation unit and factors that decreased motivation. Five key informants were chosen using purposeful selection. The participants were white women with an average age of 87. The women were interviewed within the first week of admission and
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Geriatric Rehabilitation Nursing
Rehabilitation Nursing, 1991This article is derived from a statement initially developed by the author for the Gerontology Special Interest Group of the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses. It draws on the standards and scope of practice of rehabilitation nursing as established by the American Nurses Association and the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses.
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Geriatrics, Medicine, and Rehabilitation
JAMA, 1961A geriatric clinic in a general hospital has developed a diagnostic and therapeutic program with rehabilitation goals for the aged. Medical, psychiatric, and psychosocial studies were integrated to determine needs and to provide broad, flexible, centrally coordinated services. Hospital resources were supplemented by other community facilities.
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Rehabilitating Geriatric Patients
Psychiatric Services, 1971F OR TOO MANY YEARS, psychiatrists declined! to treat elderly patients with psychotherapy on the grounds that they were confused, delusional, and forgetful. As a result many geriatric wards were filled with listless, often untidy elderly patients, showing every clinical sign of depression, one of the commonest symptoms of old age.
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