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Beverly Merz

JAMA. 1988;259(13):1919-1920.

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TREATING musculoskeletal diseases in the aged is one thing. Rehabilitating elderly patients is another. According to participants at a recent national multidisciplinary conference, the latter is often a greater challenge than the former.

At the fifth annual seminar titled "Them Ol' Bones," sponsored by St Luke's Medical Center in Phoenix, specialists in orthopedics, rheumatic diseases, physiatrics, and rehabilitation nursing offered a number of suggestions designed not so much to add years to the patients' lives as to add life to their years.

Participants generally agreed that the overall goal of rehabilitation defined by Stanley Wainapel, MD, is to restore the patient to the maximum level of his or her physical, mental, social, and vocational abilities. The hard part is determining these abilities in the individual patient, says Wainapel, who is assistant director of physical medicine and rehabilitation, St Luke's Hospital, New York City.

He cites statistics from studies showing that . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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