The purpose of this course is to offer both a rationale for therapy’s role in maintaining function and developing/implementing a system for designing functional maintenance programs for the elderly population. This course will review the therapist on Federal/State/practice act rules/regulations that provide a social and economic rationale for the importance of maintaining the function of the geriatric patient. Lastly, this course will review a process for identifying individuals appropriate for functional maintenance programming and the documentation elements for evaluation, treatment planning, and functional maintenance program design, education and follow-up.