Füsgen I
Medizinischen Klinik, Universität Witten/Herdecke.
Versicherungsmedizin. 1992 Jun 1;44(3):94-7.
It is common knowledge that in the light of demographic and social developments in the years to come our society will have to rise to the enormous challenge of medical care for the old, sick and needy. In order to shorten long-time nursing periods for old people in need of medical care preventive treatment and medical rehabilitation must be the main priority of all measures. Geriatric rehabilitation is subdivided into prophylactic rehabilitation (medical care, social sector), general rehabilitation and target-specific rehabilitation. Both the rehabilitation team and the motivation to rehabilitate are of particular importance during geriatric rehabilitation. On the whole, it has to be reckoned that older people need a distinctly longer period of recuperation, in which the clinical picture rather than the age is the decisive factor of a successful rehabilitation. As for Germany, that is only the beginning of stationary geriatric rehabilitation.
众所周知，鉴于未来几年的人口和社会发展，我们的社会将不得不应对为老年人、病人和贫困者提供医疗保健这一巨大挑战。为了缩短需要医疗护理的老年人的长期护理时间，预防性治疗和医疗康复必须成为所有措施的首要重点。老年康复可细分为预防性康复（医疗保健、社会部门）、一般康复和针对性康复。在老年康复过程中，康复团队和康复的积极性都尤为重要。总体而言，必须认识到老年人需要明显更长的康复期，在这个过程中，临床症状而非年龄才是康复成功的决定性因素。就德国而言，这仅仅是住院老年康复的开端。
