nursing home
Sign in to saveAlso known as long term residential care facility, establishment or social or medico-social service, ESSMS, home for disabled people, care for elderly people, residential care home for disabled people
type of residential care
Research
119,712 papers- Meaningful Engagement in the Nursing Home.Journal of gerontological social work · 2021
- Two Decades of Nursing Home Compare: What Have We Learned?Medical care research and review : MCRR · 2021
- Nursing home care in the USA.Geriatrics & gerontology international · 2009
- Nursing home adjustment in China: mediating and moderating effects.BMC geriatrics · 2023
- Nursing Home Segregation and Quality of Care.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2025
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Encyclopedic overview
Mennonites visiting a nursing home in 1961
A nursing home is a facility for the residential care of older people, senior citizens, or disabled people. Nursing homes may also be referred to as care homes, skilled nursing facilities (SNF), rest homes, long-term care facilities or more informally old people's homes. Often, these terms have slightly different meanings to indicate whether the institutions are public or private, and whether they provide mostly assisted living, or nursing care and emergency medical care. Nursing homes are used by people who do not need to be in a hospital, but require care that is hard to provide in a home setting. The nursing home staff attends to the patients' medical and other needs. Most nursing homes have nursing aides and skilled nurses on hand 24 hours a day.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “nursing home” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.