custodial care
Daily assistance services
Custodial care is assistance with basic daily activities—bathing, dressing, eating, moving around—rather than medical treatment.
It's the kind of help provided in nursing homes or by home aides for people who can't fully care for themselves due to age, disability, or chronic illness.
The term matters in insurance contexts, since many health policies exclude custodial care from coverage: Medicare doesn't pay for custodial care in a nursing facility.
- bathingImmersion for cleanliness
- dressingSauce for salads
- eatingIngesting sustenance
- feeding tubeDevice delivering nutrition internally
- nurseHealthcare provider, bedside
nursing homes · grooming · power of attorney · informed consent · HIPAA compliance · toileting · home health aides · bed · patient rights · medicine · hygiene · daily living · dignity · aging in place · hospice services · transferring · mobility · companionship
- elder caregerontologist, geriatrician, geriatric nurse, geriatric medicine, assisted living
- senior housingsenior housing, senior living, senior residence, senior residences, retirement community
- healthcaredoctors, nurses, hospitals, hospital, clinic
- child welfarechild protection, child welfare, child services, foster home, protective services
- residential facilitiesnursing home, assisted living, group home, foster home, retirement home
- youth carefoster homes, group homes, children's homes, youth homes, orphanages
custodial careacute care
Urgent medical intervention
intensive care · critical care · emergency care · surgical intervention · medical treatment
custodial careindependent living
Managing without assistance
self-care · community living · autonomy · self-sufficiency · home care