domiciliary
Americanadjective
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She said her office had seen a significant increase in calls from older people and families struggling to access domiciliary care, including delays to hospital discharge, reduced care provision and long waits for support.
From BBC • Jun. 30, 2026
In the year to March 2020, there were 1,408 inspections of nursing and residential care homes and domiciliary care agencies.
From BBC • Jul. 7, 2025
Each care home and domiciliary support service will be graded on four different aspects of care, but it will take two years for every home to be inspected and given a rating.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2025
Included on that list were cuts to domiciliary care packages, expenditure on community aids and adaptions for clients living in their own homes.
From BBC • May 15, 2023
If there was any domiciliary 'visit' about it, the whole houseful would be hidden past our finding as soon as we turned up in the courtyard.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard
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