A research collection and commentary on the theme.
The health of older people heavily relies on a sound network of different types of health care, that are all well developed, organised and financed. It starts with preventive and community care, often ends with long term and palliative care, and of course good acute and hospital care. After acute or subacute health problems such as a hip fracture, stroke, pneumonia and even some oncological situations, acute and hospital care need follow up with restorative actions. Rehabilitation helps a person to be as independent as possible in everyday activities and enables participation in education, work, recreation and meaningful life roles such as taking care of family. Currently, the need for rehabilitation is largely unmet, that is why the WHO several years ago launched a call to action, called Rehabilitation 2030.
Age and Ageing journal supports this initiative and is dedicated to be a platform for studies with clinical and scientific relevance on rehabilitation of older persons. This collection hopes to draw attention to the subject, stimulate scholars all over the world to do research in this field and submit their work to Age and Ageing. We have published a commentary to accompany this collection which draws attention to the subject and, by sharing the state-of-the-art to date, to stimulate scholars all over the world to do research in this field and submit their work to Age and Ageing. This commentary accompanies this collection which explores the scientific output in this field as published in Age and Ageing over the last years.
This collection of Age and Ageing papers is accompanied by an expert commentary on the topic, Older people's rehabilitation and recovery. Get Up, Stand Up for geriatric rehabilitation.