Sustaining and improving working capacity - programme description and two years follow-up

In 1991 the Social Insurance Institution Rehabilitation Act introduced a wo rking capacity sustaining and improving training programme (TYK). The goal of this programme is to sustain the physio-psycho-social competences of old er workers and employees by creating a chain of in-house rehabilitation pha ses and training phases at the workplace. We describe the programme in its early state of implementation. Two years after entering the proramme 17 pat ients were working, six were on sick leave, three were out of work, 16 were on pension, and six patients could not be retrieved.