Rehab facilities offer transitional care for patients who no longer require a hospital’s acute care services but are not quite ready to function on their own. The specialty requires well-tailored built environments—and more of them—to serve the specific needs of this unique patient profile. Rehabilitation refers to a process aimed at removing or reducing, as much as possible, restrictions on the activities of people with disabilities and enabling them to become more independent and enjoying the highest possible quality of life in physical, psychological, social, professional, and spatial terms. Depending on the type of disability, various measures, such as medical care, physical rehabilitation, vocational training, social support, or help in achieving economic self-reliance, may be needed. Physical rehabilitation includes the provision of mobility devices such as prostheses, or thses, walking aids, and wheelchairs together with the therapy that enables people with disabilities to make the fullest use of their
