title: Rehabilitation after hip fracture.
abstract: Low-trauma hip fracture in old age leads to impairment, increased need of care and mortality. Rehabilitation should start in the department for traumatology and accompany the patient through different settings until the pretraumatic status is reached. Besides the surgical procedure and the medical management of an aged person with complex disease and polypharmacy, the multidisciplinary rehabilitation process is an important factor for regaining ability for self-care and autonomous decisions. Pain management supports the process. The ideal setting is not clear yet. Besides established rehabilitation facilities for elderly people, including the departments for 'Akutgeriatrie/Remobilisation', the 'Outreach Geriatric Remobilisation' project offers new perspectives. It was designed to remobilise patients with multimorbidity in their own homes.
authors.affiliation: Vorstand Institut für physikalische Medizin und Rehabilitation, SMZ-Sophienspital, Apollogasse 19, 1070, Vienna, Austria, katharina.pils@wienkav.at.
authors.forename: Katharina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pils
authors.forename: Walter
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.forename: Rudolf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Likar
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gosch
authors.forename: Bernhard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Iglseder
authors.forename: Ernst J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.forename: Heinrich
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Thaler
authors.forename: Inge
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gerstorfer
authors.forename: Michaela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zmaritz
authors.forename: Monique
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Weissenberger-Leduc
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mikosch
authors.forename: Georg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pinter
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D015897:Comorbidity; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D016330:Frail Elderly; D006620:Hip Fractures / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D058866:Osteoporotic Fractures / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D059408:Pain Management; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012047:Rehabilitation Centers