[Basel Project of comprehensive and interdisciplinary rehabilitation of neurological patients. An action concept].

As a consequence of progress in modern medicine an increase in the number of handicapped individuals and the need for rehabilitation are noted in demographic studies during the last years. The offered facilities, however, did not keep pace with the actual demand; therefore, in the canton of Basel-Stadt a multidisciplinary project is actually under development, aiming at an adequate, mostly regionally orientated socio-medical rehabilitation. The article summarizes the well known therapeutic goals of comprehensive neurologic rehabilitation and compares them with the results of a study on the actual situation in the canton. Thus fundamental basic information on future infrastructure needs for neurologic rehabilitation in the canton of Basel-Stadt area are furnished.