Physical Rehabilitation of Older Persons Following a Community-Acquired Infection Hospitalization - A Randomised-Controlled Trial

Inclusion Criteria

• •Patients aged ≥65 years or 18-64 years if the presence of at least one chronic disease (e.g., diabetes, COPD, heart failure, etc.)
• •Suspicious of a lower respiratory tract infection AND
• •Presence of one or more symptoms of a lower respiratory tract infection such as fever ≥38.3°C, hypothermia \<35.0°C, new onset of cough, pleuritic chest pain, dyspnea, or altered breath sounds on auscultation.
• •Positive urine nitrate test and/or leukocyturia as depicted by positive esterase test or microscopy AND
• •Presence of one or more symptoms of urinary tract infection such as dysuria, urgent or frequent urination, perineal or suprapubic pain, costo-vertebral tenderness or flank pain, fever (ear or rectal temperature of ≥38.2°C or axillary temperature of ≥38.0°C), or history of feeling feverish with shivering or rigors in the past 24 hours.
• •Functionally independent before hospitalization and expected to be discharged to their own homes.
• •Signed informed consent.