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Reality Orientation: A Historical Study of Patient Progress
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Humanity And MedicineMixed RealityVirtual RealityImmersive TechnologyMedical HistoryNeurorehabilitationRehabilitation ProgramHealth SciencesAssistive TechnologyRehabilitationTelerehabilitationRehabilitation ProcessPhysical TherapyNursingReality OrientationVeterans Administration HospitalOccupational TherapyPatient-centered OutcomeMedicinePatient Experience
As part of its rehabilitation program, the Veterans Administration Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, uses reality orientation with confused and disoriented patients. The authors describe reality-orientation techniques and assess the results of the program based on a study of 125 men who participated in it and other rehabilitation activities between 1965 and 1970. Overall, 32 percent of the men improved while 68 per cent remained the same; only one patient regressed.