[Developing the integration-oriented participation into working life]

The pilot project RehaFuturReal of the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Westfalen (DRV) has been in progress since 1st April, 2011 and constitutes the implementation of the results of the na-tionwide development process RehaFutur in the consultation practice of the DRV Westfalen. In order to achieve and secure employability, this pilot project aims at sustained implementation of improved individualisation, flexibility and orientation towards integration, in the framework of the rehabilitation process. The participants are mostly recruited (75%) from different fields of medical rehabilitation (foremost orthopaedy, cardiology). They all meet the 3 selection criteria, which are present employment, current problems concerning occupational integration as well as a demand for occupational rehabilitation. They all have received support and guidance by individualised and structured rehab-management. The average age of the participants was 47.3 years (age range: 33-57 years), which is a rather old age for occupational rehabilitation. In spite of enduring physical disadvantages (83%), it turned out, that the participants had a high level of motivation concerning occupational rehabilitation services and the continuation of their employment, By offering intensive consultation and support, as well as accompanying vocational training, an occupational perspective either with the old employer or with a new employer could be reached for a large number of participants (74%). In the framework of close cooperation between the funding social security institutions, the vocational training institutions, the employers and the receivers of the services, a network has been created, which allows individualised, modularised and flexible integration solutions. In line with the pilot project RehaFuturReal of DRV Westfalen it became apparent, that in order to make occupational rehabilitation future-proof and sustainable, the already developed concepts should be transferred in actual acts of implementation consequently and interdisciplinary.