What Is Convalescent Care?

A nursing home is a facility for the residential care of elderly or disabled people. Nursing homes may also be referred to as skilled nursing facility, long-term care facilities, old people's homes, care homes, rest homes, convalescent homes or convalescent care.

What does convalescent care provide?

Convalescent Care Services

Convalescent care provides a home-like environment during post-surgery recovery, injury recovery, and can even be used as a transitional form of care following stroke or a lengthy illness.

What's the difference between a nursing home and a convalescent home?

A convalescent home can often also be called an Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility, or IRF. ... A nursing home is a facility, like Mount Hope Nursing Center in Kansas, that can provide similar medical and life-assistance care to patients, but typically will remain the facility the patient resides at for the long-term.