Geriatric rehabilitation

[amelie_physio_gr]

Hi, I'm still a student and I have to do a small project (3-5 pages) about the geriatric rehabilitation.Actually I have to write a questionnaire to estimate the physical condition of older people.Then I have to suggest some group exercises for older people.Older people have many health problems so we have to be careful.A man who has high blood pressure can not do more than 5-7 repeats.People with osteoarthritis too...Their mobility, flexibility are reduced and generally the condition of the respiratory, cardiovascular, mascular and nervous systems is not good.
The target of these group exercises is to improve their physical condition, isn't it?
We just tell them to flex, extend etc the shoulder, hip etc or what?
Any advice?

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[Hessa]

your ideas is enoght ifeel
i recommend to you a nice book called physiotherapy for Geriatrics it describes the physiological ganges that occurs as getting older in all body systems like cardiovascular, nervous , MS system
and how to enhance these changes
rule of community
so disorders that occurs in eldry like parkinson disease and how to manage it by physiothetrapy and ho theri family can deal with them>
also it describes some psychological changes llike delimia and others and how to manage it
i recommend you to read it