[Rehabilitation especially needs a holistic approach].
Rehabilitation comprises interdisciplinarity and long-time continuity including permanent accompaniment. In <<Alters-Rehabilitation>> [geriatric rehabilitation] this counts specially, according to the demographic steady growth of its importance. Neither social medicine nor rehabilitation science up to now have sufficiently taken up this <<new challenge>>. Regarding human being as biopsycho-social entity demands, besides somatic and pharmacological approach, regarding of mood, distress and environment. The by us so called <<integrated psychotherapy>> has to be applied as well in its basilar dimension [for everybody dealing with geriatric patients] as well as in specialised proportions. Same counts for pain-rehabilitation. A complex rehabilitation program wants an interdisciplinary team. By further specialisation should scientific progress be stimulated. Interdisciplinarity and overlapping however should ensure that patients do not get lost between the specialisations. All this only can work and progress by stimulating public opinion and political collaboration. These are large tasks for the rehabilitationists in the future.
Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institut für Neuro-Rehabilitation und-Prophylaxe, Feldkirch.
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D000203:Activities of Daily Living / Q000523:psychology; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012046:Rehabilitation / Q000379:methods* / Q000523:psychology