Meaning of home help | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person employed, especially by a social services department, to perform household chores and provide aid to a patient or infirm person in the latter's own home; a carer.
2. The aid provided by such people.
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Examples

“The work of the assistant home helps was particularly focused on older people (Simonen, 1990).”

“Home helps performed domestic and social care tasks (cleaning, for example, or helping clients shop or collect pensions).”

“The origins of the home help service can be traced back to the Sick Room Help Society based in the East End of London.”

“2005, Wienke G. W. Boerma, Carl-Andy Dubois, 2: Mapping primary care across Europe, Richard Saltman, Ana Rico, Wienke G. W. Boerma, Primary care in the driver's seat?: Organizational reform in European primary care, page 33, In contrast to home nursing, home help services are not a part of health care but are considered as social services, except in Ireland, the Netherlands and to some degree in Germany.”

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