title: [The present status and the future prospects of the medical network--from the standpoint of a community hospital].
abstract: Our hospital receives elderly patients who are disabled and have dementia, dysphagia, infectious diseases, and/or decubitus from acute hospitals. We treat, rehabilitate, and return those patients to their home. For this purpose we have many rehabilitation staff and several teams such as a nutrition support team, an infection control team, and a decubitus control team. Hospitals treating acute conditions do not have enough rehabilitation staff, and frail elderly patients tend to suffer a decrease in their activities of daily living. Therefore a close relationship between hospitals treating acute conditions and rehabilitation hospitals is important to avoid disuse syndrome. We also treat in-home patients. Those patients are often more disabled and financially burdened than in previous years. Therefore they need more help from the medical and social welfare system of Japan.
authors: Kyoto Min-iren Daini Chuo Hospital Department of Rehabilitation and Neurology.
authors: Yusuke
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