home-care
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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In the healthcare sector, nursing beds are being taken offline and some home-care agencies are halting admissions, said Katie Smith Sloan, chief executive of LeadingAge, which represents aging-services providers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Jered Yalung, a pharmacist who owns a home-care agency in Greensboro, N.C., recently had a patient with dementia who began refusing to take his medications because he was choking on a large potassium pill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
Fabric and home-care sales rose 1% to $7.79 billion.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2025
With councils - who pay for most social care - financially squeezed and overstretched, many care homes and home-care providers are only given short-term funding, she says.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2025
I found out that neither health insurance nor Medicare covers long-term care expenses like home-care aides, and that private for-profit long-term care insurance companies deny coverage for people with preexisting conditions.
From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2024
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