in-home care
Medical assistance locally
In-home care is medical or personal assistance provided to someone in their own residence rather than in a hospital or nursing facility.
It ranges from skilled nursing and physical therapy to help with bathing, dressing, and meal preparation: After her hip surgery, she received in-home care for six weeks.
The term emphasizes that the patient remains in familiar surroundings.
- housekeepingDomestic cleaning and upkeep
- laundry servicesCommercial fabric washing
- meal preparationReadying food for eating
- medication managementCoordinating drug therapy safely
- respiteShort pause from hardship
telemedicine · live-in aide · around the clock · caregiver · family caregiver · aide · aging in place · senior services · respiratory therapy · physical therapy · transportation services · assisted · wheelchair ramps · hospital bed · bedside · mobility aid · elderly · visiting
- pet care servicesdog walker, cat sitter, overnight sitter, drop-in visits, daily visits
- childcaredaycare, after-school programs, babysitter, nanny, babysitting
- Care Servicesbabysitting, pet sitting, house sitting, daycare, childcare
- caregivingcaregiver, nurture, look after, watch over, tend to
- elder caregerontologist, geriatrician, geriatric nurse, geriatric medicine, assisted living
- disability servicesdisability benefits, disability services, disability allowance, disability advocacy, disability payments
in-home carehospitalization
Formal entry into medical care
institutional care · nursing home care · hospital care · inpatient care · residential care
in-home careinstitutionalization
Establishing as norm or standard
confinement · custodial care · commitment · independent living