Question

Process aimed at enabling persons with disabilities to reach and maintain their optimal physical, sensory, intellectual, and social functional levels is
1. Rehabilitation
2. Preservation
3. Conservation
4. Integration

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : Rehabilitation

The term “rehabilitation” refers to a process aimed at enabling persons with disabilities to reach and maintain their optimal physical, sensory, intellectual, psychiatric and social functional levels, thus providing them with the tools to change their lives towards a higher level of independence.

• Rehabilitation is defined as “a set of interventions designed to optimize functioning and reduce disability in individuals with health conditions in interaction with their environment".
• Rehabilitation helps a child, adult or older person to be as independent as possible in everyday activities and enables participation in education, work, recreation and meaningful life roles such as taking care of family.
• It is done by addressing underlying conditions (such as pain) and improving the way an individual functions in everyday life, supporting them to overcome difficulties with thinking, seeing, hearing, communicating, eating or moving around.
• Rehabilitation helps to minimize or slow down the disabling effects of chronic health conditions, by equipping people with self-management strategies and the assistive products they require, or by addressing pain or other complications.
• Rehabilitation is not only for people with long-term or physical impairments. Rather, rehabilitation is a core health service for anyone with an acute or chronic health condition, impairment or injury that limits functioning, and as such should be available for anyone who needs it.

• Preservation is the act or process of keeping something safe from damage or deterioration.
• Conservation is the careful use of natural resources (such as trees, oil, etc.) to prevent them from being lost or wasted.
• Integration is the act of bringing together smaller components into a single system that functions as one.