title: Geriatric rehabilitation. The challenge and the goal.
abstract: A geriatric rehabilitation program at Mt. Sinai Rehabilitation Hospital in Los Angeles (which had been a custodial hospital) demonstrated the effectiveness of newer methods in rehabilitation in restoring chronically disabled elderly patients to a new level of physical, psychological and social performance. Efforts to restore morale in patients long resigned to invalidism, to make them want to live socially, to make them useful to themselves and others and to improve their physical condition brought gratifying and in some cases dramatic results.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D005853:Geriatrics / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006040:Goals; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D015141:Los Angeles; D001523:Mental Disorders; D009013:Morale; D010808:Physical Examination
keywords: GERIATRICS/rehabilitation