Define Rehabilitation

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Define Rehabilitation and provide an example of who rehabilitation is for and who it is NOT appropriate for. Provide references.
It is hard to define rehabilitation with a few pithy sentences. Since each one of us have different perspectives on rehabilitation depending on whether we are a health professional, a caregiver or relative of a patient, a client or patient, or a health administrator with budgetary responsibility (Richard, Taylor & Dean, 2012). There is the implication that rehabilitation is a complex process that demands a high level of professional skill and a holistic view of the individuals (Jefferson, 1941).
Rehabilitation is a process of restoring and enabling, rehabilitation is an education and a problem-solving process that
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ICF was started in 2001, after the unanimous endorsement of classification as a framework for describing and measuring health and disability by the 54th World Health Assembly (WHA). ICF was implemented to improve disability statistics in several countries and with collaboration at regional level such as UNSD, UNESWA and UNESCAP (World Health Organization (WHO), 2014). From then, ICF has been applied in a variety of settings at national and international level.
ICF focus on the impact, creates the foundation and common framework is allowing all condition to be compared by using a common metric on the impact of functioning of the individual. ICF looks beyond the ideal of a purely medical or biological conceptualization of dysfunction, taking into account the other critical aspects of disability. This allows the impact of environment and other contextual factors on the functioning of an individual, or a population to be considered, analyzed, and recorded. ICF provides a framework and classification system for these purposes (WHO, 2014).

What is the history of the
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Goal planning has been presented as relatively simple, straightforward way of interacting with the patient, in order to prioritize interventions facilitate teamwork and improve health outcome. However increasingly, it has come apparent that numerous approaches to goal planning exist, involving a diversity of procedures and serving a range of different. A goal can include a wide range of concepts from biological goals to complex, or from goals that are related to a moment of in time and goals that relate to a lifespan. In the context of rehabilitation, the team goal is used in generally meaning something much more specific and explicitly more linked to clinical