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This comprehensive journal is recognized for its useful balance of research and clinical practice articles. For more than 25 years Physical & Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics has functioned as a forum for rehabilitation health care professionals and scientists to share research that advances preventative, clinical, educational and therapeutic practices. The issues addressed in the journal focus on current, emerging and innovative areas of care and prevention that cross the healthcare continuum that support evidence-informed management of the older client including: health and wellness; prevention of aging-related functional decline and injury; innovative programming; clinical and technological advances; policy, and the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed for working with older clients.

Physical & Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics is innovative and timely. In addition to the wealth of information found in each scheduled issue, occasional thematic issues devoted to critical issues or professional challenges will become frequently used references in personal libraries. Past thematic issues have focused on:

  • Aging in place
  • Community mobility: driving and the elderly
  • Complementary and alternative interventions medicine in geriatrics
  • Therapeutic interventions for persons with dementia
  • Teaching students about geriatric research
  • Practice and program implications for aging with a developmental disability


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