[Rehabilitation in geriatric care (author's transl)]

The increasing number of people over the age of 65, who are naturally more often disable than the average, obliges all concerned to discuss and explore all possible rehabilitation measures. The problem is not so much the development of new methods but the difficulty of putting known and well proven therapeutical principles into practice. With the help of a model plan of a large city the article demonstrates how rehabilitation services can be integrated into the structures of geriatric care.