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home health aide
noun
- a worker, usually trained and state-certified, who provides care for elderly, sick, or disabled people in their own home.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of home health aide1
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Example Sentences
To move him between his bed and the chair, his home health aides use a patient lift.
Flint’s wife is her father’s home health aide, and the older man had just come home from having foot surgery.
Mom-and-pop providers, solo practices, home health aides, and others across the city have struggled to obtain and administer vaccines without the resources of major operators, Khan says.
Workers eligible for the vaccine right now include many who work in hospitals and urgent-care facilities, ambulance workers, home health aides and more.
It will use the Moderna vaccine in long-term care facilities and for vaccinating urgent-care workers and home health aides.
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