title: [Psychosocial rehabilitation in advanced age].
abstract: The psychosocial rehabilitation of older persons is one of the main problems in health policy. About one quarter of the over 65-year-olds face psychic problems, without, to a large extent, receiving adequate treatment and rehabilitative care. Substantial deficits exist above all in the out-patient and non-residential service sectors. In in-patient care, existing methods for psychosocial intervention (such as psychoanalysis, behavioural, client-centered, family, Gestalt, milieu, or music and dance therapy, psychodrama, reality orientation training, or resensitization techniques) are hardly ever used. This absence of applied geronto-psychology is attributable to the shortcomings of available assessment methods, multiple methodical problems of intervention research, and--above all--to insufficient staff positions for psychosocial professions in the gerontological sector. Provision of further permanent posts for psychosocial workers; development of age-specific assessment methods; interdisciplinary and systematic interventional research; the development of ambulatory, community-based services as well as intensive support for existing self-help efforts are therefore called for.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003704:Dementia / Q000534:rehabilitation; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012931:Social Environment
chemical_list: D011619:Psychotropic Drugs
vernacular_title: Psychosoziale Rehabilitation im Alter.