[Medical, psychosocial rehabilitation and prevention in patients with epilepsy]

Patients suffering from epilepsy and quite frequently reversible impairment of personality and individual development are in need of specific, disease-related measures of rehabilitation. Particularly, the complexity of the disorder prevents from a responsible and successful self-management. In order to obtain effective rehabilitation and reintegration into all aspects of social life it is essential to initiate a comprehensive treatment plan for the patients at the earliest possible stage considering personality, the distinct form of seizures, education and training as well as the condition of the environment. It requires various programs of precise examination and preventive treatment at specific facilities to ensure the desired success of rehabilitation. Thus multiple social disadvantages as well as unnecessary longterm costs may be avoided and mainly that kind of therapy will result in a better life quality and prolonged life expectancy for the epileptic patients.