| Thus, neurorehabilitation aims at furthering the skills and attitudes of the disabled person and his/her next ones. It promotes his/her skills to work at his/her highest degree of independence possible in each case. It also promotes his/her attitudes to try to gain back self-esteem and a constructive mood. Thus, he/she can adapt to the new situation and get empowered for successful and committed community reintegration. |
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| Effective and high quality neurorehabilitation must be: |
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Holistic. It should cater for the physical, cognitive, psychological, social and cultural dimensions of the personality, stage of progress and lifestyle of both the patient and his/her family. |
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Patient-focused. Customized health care strategies should be developed, focused on the patient and his/her family. |
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Inclusive. Care plans should be designed and implemented by multidisciplinary teams made up of motivated practitioners being highly qualified and trained in multidisciplinary work. |
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Participatory. The patient and his/her family's active cooperation is a must. It takes delivering right information and the patient and his/her family trusting the multidisciplinary team. |
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Sparing. Treatment must aim at empowering the patient for maximum possible independence, trying to keep down frailty and technical aids dependency to a minimum. |
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Lifelong. The patient's various needs throughout his/her life must be catered for by ensuring continuity of care from injury onset to eventual complications later in time. |
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Resolving. Treatment has to include adequate human and material resources for efficiently resolving each patient's problems as per case. |
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Community-focused. It is necessary to look for the solutions best adapted to the specific characteristics of the community and to further the creation of community resources favouring the best possible community reintegration of the disabled person. |
