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Acta fisiátrica ; 17(1)mar. 2010.
Article in Portuguese, English | LILACS | ID: lil-552519

ABSTRACT

Neste trabalho efetua-se uma reflexão sobre algumas das questões que estão a influenciar a reabilitação na atualidade. As alterações demográficas e a epidemiologia das doenças, o aumento das expectativas dos doentes, o crescimento dos custos dos cuidados de reabilitação, e também a dificuldade em estabelecer os limites entre a MFR, as outras especialidades médicas e outros profissionais de saúde, são alguns dos desafios da nossa prática diária. Por outro lado, as mudanças nos conceitos, mentalidades e políticas relacionadas com a deficiência tal como a evolução tecnológica, são oportunidades para alargar o campo de intervenção da Medicina de Reabilitação, confirmando o seu papel decisivo na promoção do entendimento social sobre a deficiência. Finalmente, abordam-se algumas novas perspectivas para a reabilitação no século XXI.


This paper addresses some of the issues that are shaping rehabilitation nowadays, such as changes in demographics and epidemiology of diseases, raising patients? expectations, increasing costs of rehabilitation care and also the difficulties in establishing boundaries between PMR, other medical specialties and rehabilitation professionals. Some contextual changes which have occurred in the last years in concepts, mentalities and policies related to disability and rehabilitation will be pointed out, as well as the benefits of technological evolution as a tool for enhancing social inclusion of people with disabilities. The recently created network for continued and integrated care, which is being set up in Portugal, will be referred, as a response to the need of providing integrated services. These changes may represent opportunities to enlarge PMR of intervention and to confirm its role on promoting social understandings of disability. Finally, some new perspectives for rehabilitation on the edge of the 21st are suggested.


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Humans , Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine , Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine/trends , Disabled Persons/rehabilitation , Health Services Accessibility , Health Policy , Recovery of Function
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