[The team of the geriatric day clinic]

Composition of staff and therapeutic offers of day-hospitals principally are identical with those of geriatric hospitals. But there are peculiarities in their working: They offer a well balanced combination of somato-, physio-, psycho- and sociotherapy which individually must be planned, perpetually controlled and if necessary changed corresponding to the given situation of the particular patient. This so called therapeutic milieu is only to be preserved by a close cooperation and interchange of information within the team and an intensive motivation of the patient to cooperate with the therapists.