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domiciliary care

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noun

  1. social welfare services, such as meals-on-wheels, health visiting, and home help, provided by a welfare agency for people in their own homes

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A domiciliary care worker, Kevin drives about 70 miles a day between clients' houses and the rise in fuel prices means he doesn't "know how much longer" he can carry on.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 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

He had requested a budget of £1bn and warned that the shortfall would negatively affect hospital waiting lists, pay settlements, GP services and domiciliary care packages.

From BBC • May 6, 2024

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

The August figures show that another 1,591 people were awaiting part of their assessed domiciliary care package.

From BBC • Sep. 22, 2022

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