Abstract
According to the increasing aging population, the rate of geriatric inpatient in our hospital is raised in recent years. The majority of the geriatric inpatients are suffering from cerebro-vascular disease.
The following results were obtained in our follow-up study on our rehabilitate stroke patients. The stroke patients at home, especially the dependent patients in ADL, have been lack in the opportunity for the medical examination. The mortality in the rare examined group has been higher than that in the frequent examined group.
These results apparently suggest the necessity of the aid of public health nurses and the necessity of the establishment of local examination center designed for the purpose of prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and after-care for aging disease including cerebrovascular disease. Therefore, it is clear that the principle of our hospital upon the rehabilitation and geriatric medication should conclude the systematic encouragement of medical examination for aging disease.
