continuing care
Long-term medical attention
Continuing care refers to ongoing medical, rehabilitative, or supportive services provided over an extended period, typically for chronic conditions, disabilities, or age-related decline.
The term encompasses settings from nursing homes to in-home assistance: a continuing care retirement community, She transferred to continuing care after her stroke.
The emphasis is on sustained support rather than acute treatment.
- nursing homesResidential elder care centers
- Medicaid coverageGovernment program funding medical care
- peer support groupsEquals helping equals cope
- rehabilitation therapyTreatment restoring lost abilities
- family involvementRelatives' active participation
social worker · telemedicine · hospital bed · skilled nursing · end of life · bereavement support · home modifications · around the clock · medication management · daily living · government subsidies · out of pocket · transitional housing · assisted living · retirement community · physical therapy · preventive medicine · mental health counseling
- senior livingassisted living, retirement, independent living, seniors, retirees
- Alcohol Recoveryalcohol recovery, Alcoholics Anonymous, AA, rehab, detox
- residential facilitiesnursing home, assisted living, group home, foster home, retirement home
- senior housingsenior housing, senior living, senior residence, senior residences, retirement community
- retirementretirement, retire, retirement age, retirees, retirement income
- recoveryrecovery, sobriety, rehab, recover, recovery room
continuing careemergency care
Immediate medical intervention
crisis intervention · urgent care · intensive care · critical care · trauma care
continuing, care, continue, continued, continues, continuity, continuous, continuously, discontinue