The geriatric day hospital (GDH) has been a cornerstone of geriatric medicine internationally for over four decades. It remains a unique service. Only the GDH has been able to offer an outpatient service comprising multidisciplinary, comprehensive geriatric assessment and rehabilitation. It has therefore fulfiled an obvious need for frail older people living at home. Long before the modern conc...

This study investigated the impact of introducing the Klein-Bell ADL Scale into a rehabilitation medicine service. A pretest and a posttest questionnaire of rehabilitation team members and a pretest and a posttest audit of occupational therapy documentation were completed. Results of the questionnaire suggested that the ADL scale influenced rehabilitation team members' observations in the combi...

Community-based rehabilitation is the strategy endorsed by the World Health Organization and other international bodies to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. In this article we trace the journey of Edawu, a mental health rehabilitation unit in a rural area of Benue State, Nigeria, from an in-patient rehabilitation unit to a commu...

WINTER 2015 23 As robotics moved from industrial to service applications, engineers began looking for new tasks that could be automated with robots. Industrial tasks had been a perfect candidate for automation since they are physically exhausting and require high precision. Motor rehabilitation seemed like a similarly appropriate robotics application. In the course of rehabilitation, the patien...

Post-acute rehabilitation for persons with acquired brain injury (ABI, i.e., trauma, stroke, anoxia) refers to a variety of rehabiitafion services provided in various, typically nonhospital contexts. Post-acute service options include skilled nursing facility-based rehabilitation programs (also commonly referred to as "sub-acute" programs), residential treatment programs (also referred to as tr...

Rehabilitation technologies are rapidly evolving, presenting promising interventions for people with neurological impairments. Access to technology, however, is greater in metropolitan than rural areas. Applying a capabilities approach this access issue foregrounds healthcare recipients’ rights and personhood within the discourse on resource allocation. Within context, study aimed investigate e...

Tele-rehabilitation is part of Tele-health (TH) which provides a rehabilitation service at distance through using telecommunication technology. The lack skilled staff, accessibility concerns, high transportation costs, lengthy waiting times, and mobility issues make face-to-face treatment difficult. Therefore, this study aimed to assess attitudes its associated factors health professionals towa...

Methods A prospective service improvement project. Adult patients with a length of stay greater than 5 days on LITU were included. Three outcome measures were selected for use on the LITU; Rehabilitation Complexity Scale (RCS), ICU Mobility Scale (ICUMS) and The Chelsea Critical Care Physical Assessment tool (CPAx). These outcomes were measured on day 5 of admission, start of rehabilitation and...

To strengthen the various programs under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Congress added consumer satisfaction as an area of study for improving service delivery to the 1998 Amendments to the act (Workforce Investment Act, P.L. 105-220). More specifically, Section 12 (Evaluation) was amended to require the commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration to conduct studies in a variety...