elderly care
Helping aged relatives
Elderly care is the provision of assistance and support to older adults who can no longer fully care for themselves.
This includes help with daily activities like bathing, dressing, and meals, as well as medical monitoring and companionship.
Elderly care happens in various settings—nursing homes, assisted living facilities, or the person's own home: Her parents need round-the-clock elderly care.
The term often appears in discussions of healthcare policy and family responsibilities.
- nursing homeLong-term eldercare residence
- assisted livingResidential care for elderly
- nursing staffHealthcare workers tending patients
- home health aideDomestic medical support worker
- retirement communityHousing development for elderly
social isolation · around the clock · aging in place · universal design · cognitive decline · senior moment · gerontology · bedsore · bed bath · aging · fall prevention · visiting hours · frailty · daily living · bathing · adult diaper · feeding · meal delivery
- nursingnurse, nursing, nurses, RN, LPN
- Home nursinghome visits, medication management, blood pressure checks, hospice support, wellness checks
- lifespan medicinepediatrics, geriatrics, neonatology, gerontology, newborn screening
- Cuban medicinehealthcare system, family doctors, polyclinics, universal coverage, medical schools
- social workcase notes, person-centered, fieldwork, community development, clinical practice
- healthcaredoctors, nurses, hospitals, hospital, clinic
elderly carepediatrics
Medicine for minors
pediatric care · child care · childcare · neonatal care · infant care
elderly carecaregiving
Attending to dependents
parenting · raising children · prime of life · independence · self-sufficiency
elderly careelder abuse
Harming or exploiting seniors
elder neglect · abandonment · senior neglect · nursing home abuse
care, careful, elder, careless, carefully, elderly, caretaker, uncaring, carelessly