ABSTRACT
The people who plan and direct a hospital rehabilitation program tend to think of the patient primarily as one of the units in that program and are concerned with his behavior insofar as it is related to that program. The active rehabilitation therapy program, however, makes up only a small part of the patients' lives. If patients come to rehab by way of the admission wards and selection clinic, they will have spent from one week to two months waiting on the admission wards before being moved to rehab. After getting to rehab, they will spend from one to three weeks being evaluated and waiting for the first team meeting. Since the rehab staff were reluctant to place these young adults on custodial wards with large concentrations of seriously disabled aged patients, they were likely to spend long stretches of time on the rehab unit.
