Below you find an overview of the variety of tracks and topics to be covered during the congress. You will be asked to place your presentation in a specific track. We still encourage all presenters to relate to the five congress perspectives as well as the overall vision of the congress MOVING SOCIETIES.

Besides the tracks you will also find keynote presentations, the topics of which may cover content related to the 5 congress perspectives, just as they will be of interest to a larger group of participants across all tracks and areas of interest.

TRACKS:

Session tracks are listed in alphabetic order and the tracks are intended to inspire presenters as well as potential participants to join the congress. 

Ageing and Rehabilitation

Includes sessions covering topics such as: Frail elderly. Homebased rehabilitation. Re-ablement. Life quality. Age-related disabilities & impairments. Chronic health-related problems. Multimorbidity. 

Approaches, Concepts and Theories in Rehabilitation

Includes sessions covering topics such as: Defining Rehabilitation. Acceptance and Value-based Interventions. Rehabilitation and Sociology. The History of Rehabilitation. ICF. ICF as a reference. The biopsychosocial model. First person narrative - third person narrative. Understanding disability.

Children/Youth and (Re-)habilitation

Includes sessions covering topics such as: Habilitation. Well-being. Inclusion. Living with congenital diseases & impairments. Parenting with reduced functional capacity. Education. Childhood.

Co-creation and Involvement

Includes sessions covering topics such as: Peers. User involvement and Co-production. Co-creation. Community involvement. 

Community-based Rehabilitation 

Includes sessions covering topics such as: Community-based Rehabilitation. Volunteering. Importance of the surroundings. craftsmanship. Art Therapy. Civil society. 

Data and Monitoring in Rehabilitation

Includes sessions covering topics such as: Big data, Activity monitoring, Improving data quality, Economic evaluation.

Education and Professionalization in Rehabilitation

Includes sessions covering topics such as: Education that moves societies, Peers in Rehabilitation, Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation.

Individual/Family Perspectives and Processes 

Includes sessions covering topics such as: Self-management, Learning and coping. Goal setting.

Inequality, Vulnerability and Rehabilitation 

Includes sessions covering topics such as: (Non)-attendance mechanisms. Drivers. Comorbidities. Environmental conditions. Referral process. Accessibility. Poverty. Social inequalities.

Innovative and Assistive Technologies in Rehabilitation

Includes sessions covering topics such as: Virtual reality in Rehabilitation. Artificial intelligence. Assessment of impact. Telerehabilitation. Developing new solutions through involvement of lead-users. Assistive technologies and everyday life. 

Leisure, Recreation and Physical Activities

Includes sessions covering topics such as: Benefits of sports. Use of wheelchairs or other mobility devices. Leisure activities to promote participation and inclusion. Accessible Tourism.

Outdoor Rehabilitation

Includes sessions covering topics such as: Nature-based rehabilitation. Accessible design. 

Policy and Service 

Includes sessions covering topics such as: Public management and governance influence on rehabilitation praxis. Disability management. Inclusiveness in political representation. Inclusion and Disability. Human Civil Rights. Disaster and refugee management. The Right to health for disabled persons. Globalization.

Psychosocial Rehabilitation

Includes sessions covering topics such as: Recovery and recovery-oriented methods. Abuse dependency. PTSD. Resocialization. Living on the edges of the laws of society. Veterans and rehabilitation. Trauma-informed treatment, trauma-informed care. 

Rehabilitation and Palliative Care 

Includes sessions covering topics such as: Hope, meaning and existence. Rehabilitation in life threatening and progressive disease – how and why? Palliative Rehabilitation. Rehabilitation and Palliative Care – conceptual, practical and organizational overlaps and differences. 

Rehabilitation between Disease and Disability

Includes sessions covering topics such as: Consequences and late effects of Disease including Covid-19. Selective effects of diagnosis. Biomedical versus the biopsychosocial focus. The impact of medical diagnosis in rehabilitation. Consequences for citizens with disabilities for everyday life. Recommendations. Health and function. Impact of rehabilitation.

Research in Rehabilitation

Includes sessions covering topics such as: Methods. Principles. Research agendas. End user involvement. Best Practice. Research in complex interventions. 

Work and Employment in Rehabilitation

Includes sessions covering topics such as: Return to work. Vocational education and training. System vs. Individual. Accessibility in Private Enterprises. Inclusive work redesign. Measuring effective interventions. From Train then Place to Place then Train. Individual placement support.