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The World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health is a framework for organizing information on functioning and disability. Functioning, as a concept, constitutes a rethinking of health that goes beyond the medical model, which is focused exclusively on disability and disease. Rehabilitation professionals are key in this transformative approach. This public workshop will facilitate a discussion on the concept of functioning and its role in rethinking the concept of health, with a focus on healthy aging and the future of rehabilitation as a health strategy.
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Aging, Functioning, and Rehabilitation: Proceedings of a Workshop
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·2024
With recent medical, technological, and socioeconomic developments, people are living longer. The rising average age of the world's population presents an opportunity to develop health policy that prioritizes functioning as a goal of healthy aging. In February 2024, the National Academies convened a...
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