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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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Michelle Wilson, care manager at Home Instead, a domiciliary care company based in Epsom and Dorking, said the rise in minimum wage could cause problems.

From BBC Nov. 27, 2025

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

A charity also said decision makers should sit down with those involved in domiciliary care to come up with solutions to tackle the ongoing problems in community care.

From BBC Jan. 6, 2023

The discharge hub manager said there was a need to increase the number of care workers both within care homes and the domiciliary care sector.

From BBC Nov. 24, 2022

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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