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Rehabilitating Age: The Social History of Elderly Rehabilitation from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century

2026-05-15

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<h4>Summary: </h4> Rehabilitation for older people has a history that mirrors changing understandings of ageing, disability, work and citizenship. This article offers a longue durée analysis of rehabilitative practices directed at older adults, from Greco-Roman antiquity and non-European medical traditions to contemporary geriatric rehabilitation. It asks how societies constructed old age in ways that affected eli...

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DOI: 10.20944/preprints202605.1005.v1

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