title: [The nurse's role in the rehabilitation of the elderly].
abstract: As the elderly people in our country are increasing it becomes more and more frequent the elderly's presence in the services of health and especially of rehabilitation. We bring in this descriptive text the main aspects involved in the elderly's rehabilitation: the referring peculiarities to the rehabilitation in this age group, the functional evaluation as an important indicative of the life quality, the phases of the elderly's rehabilitation and the systematized nursing care through the nurse, inserted in the multidisciplinary team acts with the elderly patient and his family, in an individualized way.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Estadual de Campinas.
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Diogo
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged / Q000523:psychology; D001938:Brazil; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D005851:Geriatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011788:Quality of Life; D012046:Rehabilitation / Q000379:methods* / Q000451:nursing*; D019145:Rehabilitation Nursing / Q000379:methods*