Geriatric home-based rehabilitation in Australia: Preliminary data from an inpatient bed-substitution model.
Paula M LovelandEsmee Mariëlle ReijnierseLouis IslandWen Kwang LimAndrea Britta MaierPublished in: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (2022)
Hospitalization-associated decline in mobility and functional independence improved at discharge and three-months, but was not fully reversed in the multidisciplinary home-based geriatric rehabilitation bed-substitution service. Future research should compare outcomes to equivalent hospital-based geriatric rehabilitation and evaluate patient perspectives.