[Rehabilitation--nursing care: commonalities, limits, transitions]

In geriatrics there results a necessity of rehabilitative treatment in opinion on some important facts and it is always orientating on the individual patients. As basic condition for a successful rehabilitation on appropriate "therapeutic milieu" is required. Rehabilitation and nursing are inseparably connected in geriatrics as two elements of geriatrical intervention. Nursing is firmly included in decisive processes and has diagnostic and therapeutic functions. For the patients common competence it is not so important what sort of illness he suffers from but the effect on functional efficiency.