Abstract
Rehabilitation plays a central role in the treatment of neurological diseases. The enormous progress in neurosciences sets a major challenge for restorative neurology. Because of the demographic development in Germany with increasing numbers of old-aged people, also the number of age-related neurological diseases will increase. Thus, inpatient and outpatient neurological facilities must be generally available in order to achieve community integration for those affected. In a shift of paradigms German social laws stipulate now that participation in social life has to be the goal of all efforts rather than functional improvement alone. Correspondingly, new structural option have to be offered. It seems important to implement rational, evidence-based treatment and to adopt known community-based integration strategies in order to meet the high targets set by the official health policy. The current economic competition between suppliers should not undermine these goals by means of a rehabilitation light”.
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