Rehabilitation in old age
Journal Title: Postępy Nauk Medycznych - Year 2010, Vol 23, Issue 6
Abstract
The prolongation of human life is undoubtedly the success of modern medicine. It is, however, connected with aging-associated diseases, in which rehabilitation is a difficult to replace method of therapy. Rehabilitation measures, which apply diverse and well-adjusted to the age specificity methods, offer the possibility of at least partial reduction of deficits, combating isolation and passivity and, which follows, maintaining the sense of independence and social relevance. Activity in the elderly means also the reduction in anxiety and depression and the increase in immunity to infections. The properly conducted rehabilitation generates in the organism beneficial adaptive mechanisms. It is advisable to undertake it regarding the patient’s expectations and it ought to constitute for the patient an additional reaction sustaining individual self-care and individual therapy.
Authors and Affiliations
Agnieszka Gorzkowska, Grzegorz Opala
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