The rehabilitation of patients in older age is depended from physical, psychical and social activity. But the limited possibility of adaptation, the broad individual spreeding of the character, and the polymorbidity in the older age have to taken into consideration. Hence follow some peculiarities in the rehabilitation process. The main aim of rehabilitation of patients in older age has to be the effort of social reintegration, the obtaining of an economic self-sufficiency as well as the production of self-reliance.
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