postacute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-acute
Etymology: From post- + acute.
Senses: examples: text: postacute care
text: postacute and long-term care
text: postacute syndrome
text: [The term] acute care hospital is preferred to short-term care hospital. Long-term care has come to include both an acute component (sometimes called subacute care or postacute care), which effectively provides the care formerly offered in hospitals, and the more traditional chronic component, which includes both medical and social services.
ref: 1995, Kane RL, Kane RA, “Long-term care”, in JAMA, volume 273, number 21, →DOI, →PMID, pages 1690–1691:
text: In summary, patients needing long term/chronic care have four basic options: 1) care at home, including waiver programs; 2) assisted living; 3) nursing homes; or 4) adult day care/PACE. Patients needing only short term rehabilitative or "post-acute care" have essentially six different options for rehabilitation and therapies depending on their needs and preferences and location: 1) home physical therapy via agency home care, 2) outpatient therapy (available for patients independent at home or in assisted living), 3) acute inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRF's)/rehab hospitals […], 4) long-term acute care hospitals (LTAC), 5) skilled nursing facilities, and, 6) for terminally ill patients, hospice is the final option (Kane, 2011). Each has their own criteria and systems for eligibility and reimbursement […]
ref: 2014, Todd H. Goldberg, “The long-term and post-acute care continuum”, in W V Med J, volume 110, number 6, →PMID, pages 24–30:
text: In a postacute care study mortality was found to be increased in patients suffering severe delirium in the nondementia patient group, regardless of the subtype.
ref: 2015 August 10, Vaios Peritogiannis et al., “Recent Insights on Prevalence and Corelations of Hypoactive Delirium”, in Behavioural Neurology, volume 2015, →DOI:
text: AMDA [The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine] members and stakeholders practice in settings across the post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) continuum. Learn about some of the settings and terms associated with the PALTC continuum below. […] Assisted Living is a living environment focused on maintaining independence in a supervised setting. […] Long-Term Care is traditionally provided in nursing homes, providing patients who can no longer be cared for at home or in assisted living with support for both daily living activities and complex medical problems. […] Post-Acute Care typically refers to care provided to patients recently released from the hospital, and can take place in many settings including nursing homes and rehabilitation centers.
ref: 2023, AMDA, The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, “About Post-Acute and Long-Term Care”, in PALTC.org, archived from the original on 11 May 2023:
glosses: After an acute condition (disease or situation).
Coordinate terms: topics: medicine
sciences
duration
time
sense: in chronological order
word: acute
topics: medicine
sciences
duration
time
sense: in chronological order
english: often overlapping
translation: often overlapping
word: subacute
topics: medicine
sciences
duration
time
sense: in chronological order
word: chronic
topics: medicine
sciences
duration
time
sense: in chronological order
english: sometimes overlapping, always adjacent
translation: sometimes overlapping, always adjacent
word: long-term
Derived terms: post-acute sequelae of COVID-19