The best care

Providing physiotherapy to older people is a quite interersting, perhaps best described by the following: "Working with older people can present the physiotherapist with a set of scenarios unparalleled in other areas of practice.

 

The caseload is very mixed; patients with musculoskeletal, neurological, and cardiovascular problems may all be found in a single caseload and often in the same patient. Interlinking between medical, psychological, rehabilitative, economic and social problems that all need attention is the norm, rather than the exception. Add to these the differences in presentation of disease, the unique pattern of ageing in each individual, and the varying responses that older people may demonstrate, and the complexity of the challenge is obvious but we do our best to make these patients feel better.