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Physiatrists and rehabilitation services offer critical skills and perspectives on the care of seniors though accessing optimal services can be challenging. Akin to the value of “a geriatric medicine framework,” a rehabilitation perspective can inform all medical specialties on effective clinical approaches to optimize function.

This chapter will address these advances in a format designed to explore several critical questions:

  • Geriatric Rehabilitation: How Is It Different and Why Is It Effective?

  • Promoting Function Through Rehabilitation

  • The Byzantine World of Accessing Rehabilitation Services

  • Historical Convergences: PM&R and Geriatric Medicine

  • Frailty, Geriatric Syndromes, and Prehabilitation

  • COVID 19: Rehabilitation Approaches to Acute and Chronic Issues

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  1. Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Dale C. Strasser

  2. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

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  2. Home Instead Center for Successful Aging, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA

    Jane F. Potter

  3. San Francisco VA Health Care System, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    G. Michael Harper

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Strasser, D.C. (2021). Rehabilitation. In: Lee, A.G., Potter, J.F., Harper, G.M. (eds) Geriatrics for Specialists. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76271-1_15

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