Geriatric rehabilitation: program of care after orthopedic surgery for proximal femoral fractures

Abstract

According the Definition7 amended by the Council of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS): “The medical act encompasses all the professional action, e.g. scientific, teaching, training and educational, clinical and medico-technical steps, performed to promote health and functioning, prevent diseases, provide diagnostic or therapeutic and rehabilitative care to patients, individuals, groups or communities in the framework of the respect of ethical and deontological value. It is the responsibility of, and must always be performed by a registered medical doctor / physician or under his or her direct supervision and/or prescription.”