Older people’s rehabilitation and recovery. Get up, stand up for geriatric rehabilitation

Abstract

Effective health care for older people depends on a network of interconnected services across a variety of different settings that are all well developed, organised and financed. Preventive care, long term care, palliative care, and acute care in both hospital and community settings all play important, mutually dependent roles. Rehabilitation is important for patients in each of these contexts—it can play a role in recovery after acute or subacute health problems such as a hip fracture, stroke and pneumonia. This collection draws attention to the subject and, by sharing the state-of-the-art to date, to stimulate scholars all over the world to do research in this field and submit their work to Age and Ageing. This commentary accompanies this collection which explores the scientific output in this field as published in Age and Ageing over the last years.