[Quality assurance in the rehabilitation of the elderly]

Quality and quality assurance in health care have emerged as key issues on account of recent legislation in Germany. The discussion under way on the contents of quality and quality assurance, though, is turning out a diffuse to controversial process rather than a systematic one, all the more so as quality does not present itself as a static element but as a dynamic one that intertwines in a complex manner with systemic, action and personal aspects. A scenario is developed in light of these insights for the rehabilitation of elderly persons, designed, for one, to outline and systematize some of the complexities of the issue in the geriatric domain. Above all, however, it is posted as a baseline for further deliberations on the subject of quality and quality assurance in geriatric rehabilitation, and hence is designed, for the other, to sketch the necessary starting points for quality assurance measures in the context of a geriatric-rehabilitative infrastructure to be.