Geriatric Rehabilitation : From Bedside to Community

This new edition provides a comprehensive multi-disciplinary perspective to inform and guide geriatric rehabilitation efforts across hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and in the community. It addresses the rehabilitation needs, assessment, and functional aspects of the geriatric population along with pathology and pathophysiology.

This new edition provides a comprehensive multi-disciplinary perspective to inform and guide geriatric rehabilitation efforts across hospitals, skilled nursing facility settings, and in the community. It addresses the rehabilitation needs, assessment, and functional aspects of the geriatric population along with pathology and pathophysiology. Geriatric Rehabilitation: From Bedside to Community, Second Edition, uses an internationally recognized conceptual framework that addresses medical, functional, and social model perspectives to cover all major areas of geriatric rehabilitation. It provides a broad-based perspective on older adults, discusses how age influences everyday life, and examines strategies that can be employed by rehabilitation practitioners to enable older adults to fully engage in everyday life. The topics covered include demographics, biology, physiology of aging, physical examination of the older adults, and more. This second edition also includes additional topics of interest such as hazards of hospitalization in older adults, access to health care and benefit navigation, emergent technologies, age-friendly care for the older adults past, present, and future, and global challenges in rehabilitating older adults. This book is intended for students, professionals, researchers, and academicians from disciplines involved in rehabilitation such as physiatrists, geriatricians, occupational and physical therapists, speech language pathologists, nurses, psychologists, neurologists, rehabilitation counselors, social workers, etc.