Definition of Nursing home

1. Noun. An institution where people are cared for. "A home for the elderly"

Exact synonyms: Home, Rest Home
Generic synonyms: Institution
Derivative terms: Home

Definition of Nursing home

1. Noun. A place of residence for people who require constant nursing care and have significant deficiencies with activities of daily living, such as the elderly and younger adults with physical disabilities. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Nursing home

1. A convalescent home or private facility for the care of individuals who do not require hospitalization and who cannot be cared for at home. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nursing Home

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Literary usage of Nursing home

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Federal Benefits for Veterans and Dependents (1993)
"Hospital and Nursing-Home Care Eligibility for VA hospital care and ... VA must provide hospital care and may provide nursing-home care to veterans in the ..."

2. Health Status of Minorities & Low Income Groups by DIANE Publishing Company, Dept. of Health and Human Services, United States (1991)
"Often he or she has become impoverished as a result of nursing home costs, ... Medicaid financed more than one third of nursing home care for the older ..."

3. Trends in the Health of Older Americans: U. S., 1994 by R. A. Cohen, J. F. Van Nostrand (1996)
"Percent distribution of nursing home residents, according to number of activities of daily living for which help of another was required, by age and sex: ..."

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