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Long term care is a range of services designed to meet the needs of people who are, either temporarily or permanently, unable to care for themselves on their own.

These services are designed to help these individuals live as safely and independently as possible and may be provided over a few weeks or months as people recover and rehabilitate from serious medical events, or on an ongoing basis for those who suffer from chronic and/or degenerative health conditions.

If you're in the process of choosing a long term care facility to meet your care needs or those of a loved one, there are lots of factors to consider as you evaluate and compare facilities in your area. Many people who are in the midst of this process wonder whether or not the size of a facility is one of those factors. What differences can they expect to find between large long term care facilities and smaller ones? How can those differences affect quality of care and/or quality of life?

Choosing a long term care facility, whether for yourself or a loved one, is a very big, important and complex decision. Choosing well is a process, one that will require quite an investment of time and effort. You will, of course, need to focus a great deal of that time and effort on researching the reputation of each facility you're considering in terms of quality of care, environment and cost, among other factors. However, once that is done and it's time to visit and interview each facility that makes it through the vetting process to your short list, there are 3 important questions to ask yourself as you make those visits in Alabama facilities.

If you are planning a short-term stay in a skilled nursing facility to recover and rehabilitate after a surgery or medical issue, you have probably invested a great deal of time and effort into choosing a facility that can meet your needs during your stay. However, chances are that you, like most healthcare consumers, haven't evaluated your chosen facility's discharge procedures – what you can expect from them as your stay comes to an end.

While quality of care and quality of life are certainly the primary considerations in choosing a long term care facility for yourself or a loved one, there is no getting away from the fact that costs must also factor into that choice. Comparing costs from one facility to another can be a confusing process since services provided and financial arrangements concerning those services vary widely. So how can the average person make reasonably accurate cost comparisons?

Here are basic steps to take to get a true picture of the costs associated with each facility you're considering for your care needs.

Checking carefully into any skilled nursing facility you're considering for your care or that of a loved one is very important to ensuring that you choose one that will provide quality care and services. Much of that checking involves looking into Medicare ratings, health and safety reports and other factors that can be researched online or over the phone. However, as important as that sort of research is, visiting facilities in person with a critical eye is a method that simply cannot be beat for sizing up their quality of care.

If you're in need of skilled nursing care, you'll certainly want to choose a facility for that care that is equipped to be effective in meeting your health and wellness needs. So what do you need to know to make sure that is so? Here are 7 critical components of effective skilled nursing care that you should expect to be present in any facility you choose to entrust with your care.

There are many important factors that informed healthcare consumers investigate as they choose a skilled nursing facility for themselves or a loved one.

The standard list includes the overall quality of care, the comfort and atmosphere of the facility, inspection and survey reports, licensure details and staffing details – such as staff numbers, credentials and turnover rates. However, there is another very important factor that is often overlooked: Experience.

Here we'll get into what that means in this context and why it matters in terms of choosing top-quality skilled nursing care.

Our employees care deeply about the physical and emotional well-being of the people they serve, whether they see them from behind desks in the social services office or heal them through contact in physical therapy.

Have you recently been diagnosed with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, or COPD? If so, you're not alone. Approximately 24 million people in the US currently live with this disease.

Coping with COPD doesn't necessarily mean you have to give up your normal life however. Instead, you can learn how to manage your disease so that you can live fully and actively.