[Rehabilitation from the economic viewpoint--how is geriatric rehabilitation positioned in the German health care system?].

The paper summarizes the answers to given questions and the lecture held on the occasion of a hearing of the Enquete-Kommission "Demographic change" of the German Parliament. The subject was the problem of cost-effectiveness of rehabilitation measures. The position of geriatric rehabilitation in Germany as an established and efficient method is described. The indication for rehabilitation must be correctly and individually determined, and the treatment should be available to patients in all communities.