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2. Live-in caregiver - Wikipedia

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   Social and Companion Care: Professional live-in caregivers can also provide social and companion care for elderly people who live alone. In doing so, they seek to improve their client's quality of life by facilitating opportunities for social interaction, and helping them to maintain friendships, continue hobbies, and engage in physical ...

3. Home care in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Non-medical in-home care is also called companion care or unskilled care. It is a valuable service for seniors in need of household help, social interaction, or transportation to appointments. Home care is most utilized by elderly people who live alone with impairments with their activities of daily living and have low social support.

4. Home care - Wikipedia

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   Homecare (home care, in-home care), also known as domiciliary care, personal care or social care, is health care or supportive care provided in the individual home where the patient or client is living, generally focusing on paramedical aid by professional caregivers, assistance in daily living for ill, disabled or elderly people, or a combination thereof.

5. As Americans live longer, many retirees struggle to care for ...

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   Many retirees take on caretaking because their family lacks options—a home health care aide or nursing home room are just too expensive. Families are surprised to discover Medicare doesn't cover ...

6. Elderly care - Wikipedia

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   It encompasses assisted living, adult daycare, long-term care, nursing homes (often called residential care), hospice care, and home care. Elderly care emphasizes the social and personal requirements of senior citizens who wish to age with dignity while needing assistance with daily activities and with healthcare. Much elderly care is unpaid. [1]

7. Nursing home care in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Keren Brown Wilson first developed the idea for assisted living during the 1980s as an alternative to nursing home care. [38] Assisted living is a philosophy of care and services promoting independence and dignity which was promoted nationwide as a community support in the 1990s, not a new nursing facility movement.