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| Rehabilitation in long-term care | | Author(s) | Clive Bowman, Paul Easton |
| Journal title | Reviews in Clinical Gerontology, vol 10, no 1, February 2000 |
| Pages | pp 73-79 |
| Keywords | Rehabilitation ; Services ; Health services ; Long term ; Nursing homes. |
| Annotation | The aims of maintaining independence and delaying functional decline in long-term care are poorly understood and inadequately researched. The authors suggest that rehabilitation in long-term care needs to be redefined: one in which the arrest or decline, reduction of acute crises and an improved quality of life becomes the goal and justification, rather than cure or improvement. Four areas of study are proposed for defining the process of rehabilitation in long-term care: restorative rehabilitation; maintenance rehabilitation; adaptive and reconciliative rehabilitation; and preventive rehabilitation. In addition, personal equipment for living requires proper provision: appropriate walking aids; hearing aids; glasses; and assistance with feeding for proper nutrition. The authors note a lack of support from influential reports: the Centre for Policy on Ageing's "A better home life" (CPA, 1996) implies rehabilitation; and the Royal Commission on Long Term Care's 1999 report did not expound the potential for, and provision of, rehabilitative care. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000725003 A |
| Classmark | LM: I: L: 4Q: LHB |
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