housecare
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
housecare (uncountable)
- (medicine) Treatment of a patient at his or her own home.
- 1987, Christina R. Victor, Old age in modern society: a textbook of social gerontology, page 254:
- Service responses to the problems of old age couched in terms of housecare are clearly irrelevant to the needs of many older people.
- Care and maintenance of one's home.
- 1983, John M. Stopford, The world directory of multinational enterprises, 1982-83: Volume 3:
- Pharmaceuticals and consumer chemicals: Includes cosmetics, housecare products, toiletries, veterinary products.
Synonyms edit
- (treatment of a patient at home): homecare