nursing home care
Residential elder assistance
Nursing home care is the residential supervision and medical attention provided to people—typically elderly or chronically ill—who cannot live independently.
It encompasses daily assistance with eating, bathing, and medication, along with skilled nursing services: Medicare covers some nursing home care after hospitalization.
The term often appears in discussions of aging, long-term care insurance, and end-of-life planning.
- elderlyAdvanced in age
- assisted livingResidential care for elderly
- wheelchairSeated conveyance for mobility-impaired
- bedsideNear the mattress
- call buttonSwitch to summon assistance
dementia · medication · resident · visiting hours · hospice · end of life · bedrail · loneliness · bingo · cafeteria · activity room · walker · incontinence · bed sores · loved ones · rehabilitation · physical therapy · Alzheimer's
- healthcaredoctors, hospitals, hospital, clinic, clinics
- Social Programswelfare office, unemployment benefits, disability benefits, TANF, family allowances
- nursingRN, LPN, LPNs, CNAs, CNA
- elder caregerontologist, geriatrician, geriatric medicine, assisted living, caregivers
- social welfaresocial welfare, welfare state, welfare checks, social insurance, welfare benefits
- lifespan medicinepediatrics, geriatrics, neonatology, gerontology, newborn screening
nursing home careindependent living
Managing without assistance
self-care · aging in place · self-sufficiency · retirement community · self-reliance
nursing home carehome care
Assistance provided at residence
in-home care · living at home · home health care · outpatient care
nursing home carenewborn care
Tending to infants
neonatal care · pediatric care · infant care · maternity care · childcare
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