Wedgwood J
Int Rehabil Med. 1985;7(3):107-9. doi: 10.3109/03790798509166135.
Rehabilitation plays an important part in geriatric medicine. It is important to consider this in the current discussions on rehabilitation and disability medicine. The historical development of geriatric medicine and physical medicine shows similarities. Geriatric medicine has developed from a stage in which the main problem was the application of rehabilitation principles to long-stay wards containing large numbers of immobilized elderly patients, to the present, when emergency admission policies, age related policies, and joint geriatric and general medical firms are common. The attitude to rehabilitation has consequently changed from a serial, staged programme, to an holistic approach in parallel.
康复在老年医学中起着重要作用。在当前关于康复与残疾医学的讨论中考虑到这一点很重要。老年医学和物理医学的历史发展呈现出相似之处。老年医学已从一个主要问题是将康复原则应用于收治大量长期卧床老年患者的长期病房的阶段，发展到如今急诊入院政策、与年龄相关的政策以及老年医学与普通医学联合机构都很常见的阶段。因此，对康复的态度也从一种循序渐进、分阶段的方案，转变为并行的整体方法。
