Abstract
Rehabilitation is the care needed when a person is experiencing or is likely to experience
limitations in everyday functioning due to aging or a health condition, including
chronic diseases or disorders, injuries, or traumas. The changing health and demographic
trends are contributing to rapid increases globally in numbers of people experiencing
declines in functioning. Hence, rehabilitation needs that are already very high will
further increase in the years to come.
The question is: Is the field of rehabilitation with all its stakeholders ready to
address that challenge?
I argue that to move things forward and make sure that rehabilitation becomes a political
priority under a unified message, rehabilitation stakeholders need to bring together
the distinct portraits of rehabilitation under the concept of functioning. Also, the
field of rehabilitation is still very fragmented and there is a need of a more unified
advocacy by rehabilitation professional groups, by subspecialties and users.
Responses to the paper are very welcome before, during, and after the second global
Rehabilitation 2030 meeting on July 8 and 9, 2019.
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Published online: June 03, 2019
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