Abstract
Geriatric patients with rheumatic conditions, undergoing rehabilitation, have some specific features that necessitate a different approach, compared with younger ones.
The rehabilitation process can take place in an inpatient rehabilitation department, a nursing home for patients with sub-acute conditions, or be home-based. A thorough rehabilitation evaluation must precede the treatments, and a multidisciplinary team should be in charge of an elderly patient with a rheumatic disease, from admission till discharge to the community or another medical facility.
This chapter describes as well some conventional physical medicine methods and devices, and suggests physical protocols in prevailing rheumatologic diseases at an older age.
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Marcovici, E. (2020). Principles and Protocols of Rehabilitation of Geriatric Patients with Rheumatic Disorders. In: Slobodin, G., Shoenfeld, Y. (eds) Rheumatic Disease in Geriatrics . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44234-7_30
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