Home For The Aged: From 1 Different Sources
See “residential care”; “assisted living facility”; “high dependency care facility”.
A person or a service providing practical help in the home, such as household chores, to support an older person with disabilities to remain living in his/her own home.... home help
See “high dependency care facility”.... nursing home
A residence which offers housing and personal care services to a number of residents. Services (such as meals, supervision and transportation) are usually provided by the owner or manager. Usually 24-hour professional health care is not provided on site. See also “assisted living facility”.... adult care home / residential facility
The state of being old. A person may be defined as aged on a number of criteria including chronological age, functional assessment, legislation or cultural considerations.... aged
Services provided to people deemed to be aged or elderly.... aged care
Multidisciplinary team of health professionals that is responsible for comprehensive assessments of the needs of older persons, including their suitability for hospital, home or institutional care.... aged care assessment team
See “adult care home”.... board and care home
A residential facility that provides accommodation and offers a range of care and support services. Care homes may provide a limited number of services to support low dependency or may provide a wide range of services to cater for the continuum from low to high dependency care. See “assisted living facility”; “high dependency care facility”.... care home
A house in which people have their own rooms but there are communal facilities. Staff may live in to offer support.... group home
Domicile of an individual.... home
See “adaptation”.... home adaptation
See “community-based care”.... home and community-based services; home and community care programme
A public or private organization that provides home health services supervised by a licensed health professional in a person’s home, either directly or through arrangements with other organizations.... home health agency (hha) / home health care agency
A person who, under the supervision of a home health or social service agency, assists an older, ill or disabled person with household chores, bathing, personal care and other daily living needs. See also “community-based service”.... home health aide
See “domiciliary care”.... home health care / home care
An organization offering advice and practical assistance to older people who need to repair, improve or adapt their homes.... home improvement agency
Equipment, such as hospital beds, wheelchairs and prosthetics, provided by an agency and used at home.... home medical equipment
Professional visits in the home.... home visits
Schemes providing nursing care, personal care or practical help for older people who have returned home after a stay in hospital.... home-from-hospital / hospital after-care schemes
Home-based specialist medical care used to shorten hospital stays or prevent hospital admission.... hospital-at-home scheme
A service provided in the home by a home health agency or a residential services agency. It may be provided by personal care attendants or home health aides hired privately and informally, or through staff agencies or registries.... in home health service
Care provided in geriatric centres and acute hospitals to older persons who are in need of limited medical care and who are awaiting nursing home placement.... interim nursing home care
Housing built to be adaptable to people’s changing needs, thus avoiding the need for expensive and disruptive adaptations.... lifetime home
A range of health care, personal care and social services provided to individuals who, due to frailty or level of physical or intellectual disability, are no longer able to live independently. Services may be for varying periods of time and may be provided in a person’s home, in the community or in residential facilities (e.g. nursing homes or assisted living facilities). These people have relatively stable medical conditions and are unlikely to greatly improve their level of functioning through medical intervention.... long-term care (ltc) / long-term aged care
See “residential care”; “assisted living facility”.... residential aged care facility
Involves care designed to improve the physical wellbeing and restore the health of older people to an optimum level following a serious illness.... short-term aged care
People or groups who have an involvement or interest in the aged care system, including beneficiaries, providers and funders.... stakeholders (in aged care)
(CRHT) (in psychiatry) a multidisciplinary team in psychiatric services specialized in the treatment of severely mentally ill patients in their home environment. An additional remit of CRHTs is to try and avoid acute hospital admissions.... crisis resolution and home treatment team
see community midwife.... home delivery
see domiciliary consultation.... home visit
HPV (two doses)... girls aged 12–13 years
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