Updates on Rehabilitation Care for Geriatric Disease

Dear Colleagues,

Rehabilitation programmes, in general, include multifactorial interventions to reduce risks, promote healthy behaviours and an active lifestyle, reduce disability, and improve health, wellbeing, daily living activities and social participation. However, in older patients, resilience and frailty can hamper the rehabilitation process. Therefore, the outcomes cannot be easily predicted, even though some factors have previously been associated with rehabilitation effectiveness.

A focus on the resilience of older persons may provide additional sources to induce recovery in an effective way, in turn allowing elderly patients to resume their lives. With an ageing global population, there is a crucial need to optimize the practice and effectiveness of geriatric rehabilitation and make it more sustainable. Additionally, rehabilitation programmes should better address older patient’s goals and wishes.

Telerehabilitation could be an innovative and cost-effective way to achieve this goal. Another aspect of rehabilitation for older persons that needs our attention is the possibility of prehabilitation, which can promote better resilience and rehabilitation effectiveness after elective surgery.

Dr. Guillaume Chapelet
Prof. Dr. Jos M.G.A. Schols
Prof. Dr. Wilco P Achterberg
Guest Editors

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