When it is Time to Decide on Skilled Nursing Care?

With an aging loved one, it can be difficult to decide on specialized care. However, often times it is more beneficial for both the caregiver and loved one to consider an array of senior care options. Nursing homes offer a wide range of senior care options including social interaction, professional medical care, personal care, and round the clock supervision. Here, Mark Berger Chicago, founder of the Illinois based healthcare company Villa Healthcare, offers some guidance on how to start the process, and help them get appropriate care.

Post-Acute Rehabilitation

If you have been hospitalized for an injury, surgery or illness, you’ll likely need follow-up therapy to help you recover. Post-acute rehabilitation services are a critical step in the process of transitioning from the hospital to home as safely as possible. Post-acute rehabilitation, also known as rehab therapy, inpatient therapy or transitional care — is a type of care you receive following a hospitalization. Mark Berger Chicago, Chief Executive Officer at Villa Healthcare has a long history of successfully creating a safe environment for patients where they can receive post-acute care with a 24-hour skilled nursing care, while they recover in a comfortable and supportive atmosphere, working towards their goals. And best of all, the rehab therapy team tailors their services to the patients’ individual needs, helping them recover as quickly and safely as possible.

Why Seniors Need to Exercise

Exercise is essential for a healthy body and mind. However, exercise for seniors can often be a challenge, especially when mobility is an issue. There are many reasons why we tend to slow down and become more sedentary with age. It may be due to health problems, weight or pain issues, or worries about falling. Or perhaps you think that exercising simply isn’t for you. But that doesn’t mean that exercise is any less important. According to Mark Berger, Chicago based healthcare executive, the key is staying active and moving the body in any way possible.

Post-Acute and Long-Term Care

When a person is discharged from the hospital following an illness or injury, although the patient is no longer in need of hospital services, they do still require medical care. Under the leadership of Mark Berger Chicago, Villa Healthcare, a leading provider of post-hospital care, rehabilitation, skilled nursing, and long-term care services, offers post-acute care services to bridge the gap between hospital and home.

Villa Healthcare owns and manages twenty-two Short Term Rehabilitation and Nursing Centers throughout the Midwest. Mark Berger Chicago has decades of experience in nursing facility ownership and management. His company goes beyond simply providing resident-focused care, and its goal is “to make people better” - staff and residents, and to improve their lives.