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THREE VITAL CONSIDERATIONS IN GERIATRIC REHABILITATION
Author(s) -
WHEELER PAUL C.,
WOLCOTT LESTER E.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1970.tb03183.x
Subject(s) - medicine , rehabilitation , socioeconomic status , gerontology , geriatric rehabilitation , dementia , geriatrics , welfare , physical therapy , psychiatry , environmental health , pathology , population , disease , political science , law
A bstract : Three vital factors should be taken into account in all attempts at geriatric rehabilitation: 1) psychological status, particularly as related to pseudosenility and peculiar character traits versus the old concept of senile dementia; 2) socioeconomic welfare in an era in which the over‐all trend is toward separation of the aged from their children, a preoccupation with prolonging survival, and a sudden drive to solve the problem by jerry‐built placeboes; and 3) vocational opportunities for the healthy and only partially handicapped aged.