Physical and rehabilitation medicine in the XXI century: challenges and opportunities
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-0190.v17i1a103310Keywords:
Disabled Persons, Physical Medicine, Public PoliciesAbstract
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 field 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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