The Academic Society for Rehabilitative Care is an association of academically qualified healthcare professionals. We enable people and their families to keep, get back, or improve skills and functioning for daily living that have been lost or impaired because of illness, accident or due to disability.

Rehabilitation is a fast evolving specialist field. Rehabilitative care is increasingly gaining importance as a result of demographic changes, developments in the Swiss health care system and medical progress.

These factors have led to more healthcare professionals specialising in rehabilitative care, which causes a growing need to transfer knowledge generated in research into practice.

We promote research in the field of rehabilitative care and contribute to an evidence-based development of rehabilitative care.

Goals

The Academic Society for Rehabilitative Care supports the professionalisation of the care sector through:

• networking on a national and international level
• developing standards and guidelines
• promoting and strengthening rehabilitative care
• developing research-based evidence
• promoting specialised continuing education
• providing a platform for exchanging information on rehabilitation care projects
• exchanging information on projects in research and practice
• promoting interprofessional collaboration