Rehab Select Blog

Managed long term care is a movement, largely promoted through Medicaid and Medicare, toward a value-based, managed care approach to long term care for elderly and disabled adults. If you're an Alabama healthcare consumer who needs long term care, you probably have questions about how managed care may work for you. What options are available to you under a managed long term care system?

Long term care services is a term used to describe a range of health, personal care, and support services designed to meet the needs of people who struggle with self-care. This may be a temporary circumstance, caused by a short-term injury or illness, or a permanent situation, brought about by chronic illness, long-term disabilities, cognitive or neurological issues or the aging process.

Has long term care been suggested to meet your needs or those of a loved one? If so, you’re likely to have questions about this type of care. What is long term care? Why might it be right for your situation? What types of patients can benefit from this sort of care? Here, we’ll look into these questions to help you get a better idea of what long term care is all about and when it may be an appropriate care option.

Are you considering inpatient rehab to help you recover from a serious illness, injury or medical event? Perhaps your healthcare team has recommended this option for meeting your care needs, or maybe you have heard good things about inpatient rehab centers from family members or friends who have used their services. So what is inpatient rehab and why can it be important to making your best recovery?

If you've had hip replacement surgery or are planning a procedure, knowing what to expect as you recover and rehabilitate after surgery is important. After all, these are major surgeries, and recovery is not an easy process. Having realistic expectations as you work through that process can prevent you from getting discouraged or frustrated along the way, which can be an impediment to making your best recovery. One of the more important things to know going in is just how long that process will take, so here, we’ll look into how long you can expect short term rehab to take after hip replacement surgery.

If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, you should know that short term rehabilitation can help. The treatment and therapy offered by a good short term rehab program can be very helpful in the management of some of the symptoms and problems that go along with this degenerative neurological disease, helping patients prolong independence and improve quality of life.

If your medical team has recommended short term rehab for you, chances are that you have questions about this type of care, especially if this will be your first experience with rehab. Perhaps the most common question people have is what they can expect a rehab program to to do for them. To help you answer this question, we’ll go over 3 goals of short term rehab.

An accident that causes significant, debilitating injuries can really throw your life into a sudden, unexpected sort of chaos. If this has happened to you, chances are that short term rehab is a recovery option that has been suggested by your medical team to help you regain function and independence lost to your injuries. So just how can short term rehab aid accident recovery? Here we’ll outline important ways a stay in a good short term rehab program can help.

So you’ve just had surgery or you’re planning to, and your healthcare team has recommended short term rehab to ease your path as you’re recovering from surgery. What is short term rehab and what do you need to know to make the most of the experience? These programs are designed to give you the comprehensive therapy, treatment and support you need to make your best recovery, regaining your personal best level of health, function and independence as quickly as possible.

So your healthcare providers have recommended an inpatient rehab program to help you get back on your feet after a serious medical problem. Perhaps you’re unsure as to whether or not a stay in an inpatient rehab is really necessary. What do these facilities have to offer in terms of improving your recovery or your quality of life? Here we’ll outline 4 critical services provided by inpatient rehab centers to help you understand why your healthcare provider feels that it may be important for your recovery.