welfare check
Concern-prompted home visit
A welfare check is a visit by police or other officials to verify someone's safety and well-being, typically requested when a person hasn't been heard from or may be in distress: Her coworker called for a welfare check after she missed three days of work.
Also called a wellness check.
Unharmed and protected
- proof of lifeEvidence someone is alive
- emergency responseOrganized action during crises
- missing personUnlocated person sought by authorities
- next of kinNearest living family members
dispatch · 911 call · unresponsive · no contact · mental health crisis · crisis intervention · forced entry · death investigation
Appointment at patient's residence
- assisted livingResidential care for elderly
- homecareMedical aid at residence
- fall riskDanger of tumbling
- dementiaChronic cognitive impairment
Alzheimer's · social worker · meal delivery · isolation · elder abuse · neglect · home health aide · aging in place
safe and sound
Unharmed and protected
- proof of lifeEvidence someone is alive
- emergency responseOrganized action during crises
- missing personUnlocated person sought by authorities
next of kin · dispatch · 911 call · unresponsive · no contact · mental health crisis · crisis intervention · forced entry · death investigation · coroner
home visit
Appointment at patient's residence
- assisted livingResidential care for elderly
- homecareMedical aid at residence
- fall riskDanger of tumbling
dementia · Alzheimer's · social worker · meal delivery · isolation · elder abuse · neglect · home health aide · aging in place · respite care
- checkspaycheck, preflight, final review, checkup, checklist
- government mailtax forms, census forms, jury summons, voter registration, tax refund
- missing personsmissing person, disappearance, missing children, missing child, vanished
- welfareSNAP benefits, public assistance, food stamps, poor law, TANF
- elder abuseelder neglect, elder fraud, senior neglect, nursing home abuse, caregiver abuse
- school attendanceattendance, absence, absences, truancy, tardy
welfare checkarrest
Seize by law
raid · police raid · no-knock raid · eviction · drug bust
welfare checkcriminal investigation
Official probe into lawbreaking
manhunt · sting operation · interrogation · police questioning
welfare checkemergency response
Organized action during crises
911 call · crisis intervention · rescue operation · trauma response · death notification
welfare, check, fare, faring, fared, fares, checked, checking, checks