Goals in rehabilitation teamwork

Abstract

‘Goal setting’ is used in rehabilitation team management as a tool to improve the quality of the rehabilitation process. In general, goals must be relevant, expressing what should be accomplished, positively defined, put in behavioural terms, easily and clearly understood by all the team members, attainable, allow planning, and they must be measurable. Goals should be set in terms of activities of value to the patient, to be realized in a planned timespan.

Key Words:

• rehabilitation programmes
• team management
• goal setting

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Notes on contributors

H. J. Stam

It is with great sadness that we have to inform the readership of the Journal that shortly after completing the final editorial work on this Special Issue, Professor Kalman Jacob Mann was seriously injured in a car accident and subsequently died.

Professor Mann was responsible for establishing the two Hadassah Hospitals and Community Health Centres in Jerusalem and for the past 20 years headed the Presidium of Yad Sarah, Israel's largest community based, volunteer operated organization which provides a spectrum of free or nominal cost home care services nation-wide.

We offer our condolences to his family and friends, and trust that this Special Issue stands as a testament to his work in the field.