What's the difference between rehabilitation and renovation?

Rehabilitation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of rehabilitating, or the state of being rehabilitated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nutritionally rehabilitated animals had similar numbers of nucleoli to control rats.
  • (2) The "rehabilitation" and "institutional" meanings of the patient's admission to the clinic have been distinguished.
  • (3) Throughout the period of rehabilitation, the frequent changes of a patient's condition may require a process of ongoing evaluation and appropriate adjustments in the physical therapy program.
  • (4) The discussion on topics like post-schooling and rehabilitation of motorists has intensified the contacts between advocates of traffic law and traffic psychologists in the last years.
  • (5) Another important factor, however, seems to be that patients, their families, doctors and employers estimate capacity of performance on account of the specific illness, thus calling for intensified efforts toward rehabilitation.
  • (6) In patients who had undergone gastric operations, the efficacy of a parenteral rehabilitation with plasma, human albumin and Aminofusin L forte was determined by assessing the extravascular albumin pool.
  • (7) We report on experiences with diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and the results of vocational rehabilitation.
  • (8) A programme is described in which indigenous personnel are trained to provide culturally appropriate rehabilitation services for islanders of the Pacific Basin.
  • (9) Knee preservation is an important factor for better rehabilitation.
  • (10) The weakness was treated by intensive physical rehabilitation with complete and sustained recovery in all cases.
  • (11) The present retrospective study evaluates the outcome of a three-month cardiac rehabilitation exercise program with changes in exercise performance, compliance with postdischarge exercise routine, and return to work pattern.
  • (12) At discharge, 58% were living with their families, 23% were living in group homes, 12% were in supervised apartments and 5% were in an alternative rehabilitation centre.
  • (13) A preliminary study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of therapeutic patient groups in a rehabilitation setting.
  • (14) Perinatal brain damage produced by early zinc deficiency followed by rehabilitation with adequate zinc appears to be long term, maybe permanent.
  • (15) The paper is concerned with an examination of the families of patients suffering from anorexia nervosa and the role they play in rehabilitation and resocialization of patients.
  • (16) The percentage of those who felt they had successful results decreased with time: 82.8% felt their knees had improved immediately after postoperative rehabilitation; this decreased to 78.1% at 6 months, 73.5% at 1 year, 65.5% at 2 years, and 50.0% at 3 years.
  • (17) The other 25 patients, who did not improve with rehabilitation, underwent surgical reconstruction, the majority of these being soft tissue repairs.
  • (18) Other factors that may have important effects on recovery include the localization, nature, extension and degree of brain damage, the patient's sex and age, the duration of coma, the patient's original cognitive capacity, his personality and motivation as well as the duration and intensity of rehabilitation and the time before starting rehabilitation.
  • (19) Advisable in a first time for the feeding of patients with palliative treatment, we propose PEG for patients in position to have a long and difficult rehabilitation of swallowing.
  • (20) Without skilled rehabilitation intervention, their emotional, social, economic, and physical well-being will be greatly impacted, perhaps for life.

Renovation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of renovating; the state of being renovated or renewed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Our guides accommodated requests such as a visit to a department store, but turned down others such as going to a nearby market, saying it was under renovation.
  • (2) A hospital's pharmacy renovated its existing outdated and highly restricted departmental space to help ensure more efficient operation until the master plan for hospitalwide improvements could be completed and implemented.
  • (3) High-end estate agents are already being sounded out to sell the 10,000 square foot consular residence in London's upscale Holland Park – which is currently being renovated.
  • (4) Over the next year we hope to continue renovating the existing elements: re-insulating the north-facing walls, adding solar panels and linking the wood burner up to the central heating hot water tank."
  • (5) Renovation of a three-story hospital and construction of new one-story units consolidated scattered services and provided a barrier-free design for patients.
  • (6) Wealthy locals dine in the 32nd-floor restaurant at Grozny City, a five-star hotel, the football team plays at a newly renovated stadium.
  • (7) How many would have foreseen a national conversation – in public and in private – that revolves around the three Rs: renovation, recipes and resorts?
  • (8) The time of complete renovation of the peritoneal mast cells has been stated to be, according to the mode of the stimulation, 60--80 days.
  • (9) It cannot be put towards a deposit, but is made available after completion of the purchase for buyers to undertake renovation work.
  • (10) The renovated unit (A) contained nine single-bed intensive care rooms and seven intermediate-level care beds in four rooms.
  • (11) That money, three times more than their agricultural subsidies, could renovate village halls and schools, and invest in local renewable energy programmes.
  • (12) According to materials of the symposium at the XVI All-Union Congress of Microbiologists and Epidemiologists the author presents some trends in the improvement of teaching epidemiology, including renovation of the programs and teaching plans at the sanitary-hygienic faculty, development of practical habits and rationalization in the organization of practical work at the therapeutic and pediatric faculties.
  • (13) • 1050 East Palm Canyon Drive (+1 760 323 1858, thehorizonhotel.com ); double rooms from $109 The Movie Colony Movie Colony, Palm Springs Concierge John-Michael swears that Jim Morrison made the leap from balcony to pool here in 1969, and that Frank Sinatra was a resident while his nearby home was being renovated – and even though the myth of celebrity tends to get overblown, if not utterly fabricated, in southern California, we found no reason not to take him at his word.
  • (14) At best, the welcome renovation of these older homes will be funded by squeezing new private dwellings into the generous green space that surrounds them.
  • (15) The author presents seven guidelines related to specific elements of the physical setting, such as space differentiation, color, texture, and lighting, that administrators and staff can use in analyzing existing hospital settings and in discussing designs for renovations or new construction with architects.
  • (16) New floor covering systems, including new carpets, have been identified as a potential, short-term source of VOCs in the indoor air of new or renovated buildings.
  • (17) Keith Best has spent a decade renovating 35 Church Road, Newbury Park, Ilford, an area where similar semi-detached three-bedroom properties have been on the market at about £390,000.
  • (18) The difference has enabled us to renovate this house, and it's also meant I don't have to go back to work."
  • (19) Halifax District Hospital's Medical Library, Daytona Beach, Florida was altered from two dingy rooms to a modern, well-equipped Medical Library twice its former size by its maintenance men in six months time, with the help of the librarian's sketches and an architect student from the junior college to draw the plans.A complete renovation was done, eighteen-inch walls between rooms being demolished, plumbing, ceiling, and windows removed.
  • (20) The VA has banned the use of new asbestos products containing more than 1% of asbestos in building construction or renovation projects.