[Effectiveness of geriatric rehabilitation among patients with secondary diagnosis dementia]
Korczak D, Steinhauser G, Kuczera C
Record ID 32011001394
German
Authors' objectives:
This health technology assessment (HTA) answers the questions what is the benefit of unimodal, multimodal and multi-professional rehabilitation programmes for geriatric patients with the secondary diagnosis dementia and how cost-effective are these programmes.
Authors' recommendations:
The principle "rehabilitation has precedence over nursing care" should be consistently and comprehensively
implemented among patients with the secondary diagnosis dementia, as rehabilitation treatments (ergo-, physiotherapy, strengthening of cognitive skill) are effective among patients with dementia. The rehabilitation of the primary disease should be adapted to the cognitive skills of the patients in order to achieve the optimum level of treatment outcome. The research of this topic should be improved.
Details
Project Status:
Completed
Year Published:
2012
URL for published report:
http://portal.dimdi.de/de/hta/hta_berichte/hta331_bericht_de.pdf
English language abstract:
An English language summary is available
Publication Type:
Not Assigned
Country:
Germany
MeSH Terms
- Dementia
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Outpatients
Contact
Organisation Name:
German Agency for HTA at the German Institute for Medical Documentation and Information
Contact Address:
German Agency for Health Technology Assessment at the German Institute for Medical Documentation and Information, Waisenhausgasse 36-38a, D-50676 Cologne Germany
Contact Name:
dahta@dimdi.de
Contact Email:
dahta@dimdi.de
Copyright:
<p>German Agency for Health Technology Assessment at the German Institute for Medical Documentation and Information (DAHTA@ DIMDI)</p>
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