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Geriatric Rehabilitation — The Present State and Further Developments

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Geriatric rehabilitation is the basic term for a whole series of procedures attempting to improve the health and social setting of older people who are ill and/or disabled. As a clinician, I shall dwell on those aspects with which I deal daily in my work as chief physician of a geriatric rehabilitation hospital. A geriatric rehabilitation hospital in West Germany is a special hospital for older patients with the task of providing both geriatric general care and specific measures for chlinical rehabilitation. These hospitals are subdivided into:

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    Geriatric rehabilitation hospitals for acute care with an average hospital stay of about 40 days

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    Geriatric rehabilitation hospitals for longer term patients with an average stay exceeding 60 days

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  1. Klinik für medizinische Rehabilitation und Geriatrie, Schwemannstr. 19, D-3000, Hannover 71, Germany

    J. Rustemeyer

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  1. Lehrstuhl für Innere Medizin — Gerontologie, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Heimerichstr. 58, D-8500, Nürnberg, Germany

    Dieter Platt

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Rustemeyer, J. (1989). Geriatric Rehabilitation — The Present State and Further Developments. In: Platt, D. (eds) Gerontology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74996-4_24

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