Rehabilitation goals
planned, specific, measurable and realistically achievable results of rehabilitation measures. They depend on the context of rehabilitation – medical, psychological or social. Rehabilitation goals pursue the restoration of a stable state of health, ability to work and a certain activity of the patient in everyday life, if possible in the form and volume that is considered “normal” for this person or typical for his life situation. This goal can be achieved through the complete or maximum restoration of the original structures and functions or skills and social role, with the use of “backup strategies” or the use of residual functions and skills (compensation), the adaptation of environmental conditions to disturbed skills or limitations (adaptation) on the basis of rehabilitation necessity, rehabilitation ability (see Rehabilitation ability in Chapter 2.5. Key psychological concepts in psychology special categories) and rehabilitation prognosis (see Rehabilitation prognosis in Chapter 2.5. Key Psychological Concepts in the Psychology of Special Categories).