[Integrated physical therapy in psychiatry, neuro-rehabilitation and rehabilitation of the aged].

Physiotherapy forms a main part of modern therapy, however it only can be optimal in full integration with pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy and sociotherapy. Gerontopsychiatry offers a large field for physiotherapists. Besides highly specialised physiotherapy the dimension of recreation, fun-giving and amelioration of life quality must not be forgotten in physiotherapy. These possibilities from an important function within a human and humanitarian medicine. A further main condition for amelioration is to involve relatives fully in the therapeutical concept. Our experience has shown that within the domestic surrounding rehabilitative progress can well arrive; however, only if systematically prepared and uninterrupted stimulated.