Importance of Physiotherapy in Gerontopsychiatry

The subject of this work is application of physiotherapy at gerothopsychiatric patients, the image of care of geronthopsychiatric patient on inpatient department and at after-care facilities (facilities, that are providing respite care and day care). In form of casuistry it is describing process and results of individual physiotherapy of polymorbidic patient with organic anxious disorder and schizoaffective disorder of depressive type, of which during exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease had occurred deterioration of motivity, for which she has to be hospitalized on internal ward. The work briefly characterizes fields of gerontology, geriatrics and gerothopsychiatry that deal with problems of seniors. It refers to theory of aging and physiological changes in the old age. It is concerning the most common geriatric problems like instability, imobility, problems with urinary incontinence, intelect disorders and iatrogenic harm of the patient. It indicates the most common mental disorders in the old age, which are cognitive disorders including dementia, delirium and depression also. Furthermore the work is devoted to effects of locomotion on organism and to possibilities of physiotherapy at gerothopsychiatric patients, to possibilities of individual locomotion therapy and group therapeutic..