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rest home

n.
A private establishment where elderly or disabled persons are housed and cared for.
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rest′ home`


n.
a residential establishment that provides special care for convalescents and aged or infirm persons.
[1920–25]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.rest home - an institution where people are cared forrest home - an institution where people are cared for; "a home for the elderly"
nursing home, home
institution - an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated
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Translations

rest home

n → Altersheim nt, → Pflegeheim nt
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

rest home

n → casa di riposo
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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In order to do this, I gathered a great heap of grapes in one place, a lesser heap in another place, and a great parcel of limes and lemons in another place; and taking a few of each with me, I travelled homewards; resolving to come again, and bring a bag or sack, or what I could make, to carry the rest home. Accordingly, having spent three days in this journey, I came home
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The Bush Rest Home, in Darlaston, Walsall will host the event from 2pm on Friday, September 27.
Singing and cake sale at care home open day; E&S BRIEFING
Exterior of College Green Rest Home on College Road, Crosby.
Care worker convicted for kicking frail elderly woman with dementia; Chrstopher Ryan had worked in the industry for 22 years before the incident at a care home in Crosby
It was launched in the wake of Christchurch rest home, Merivale Retirement Village, informing its residents that a replacement home being built would not have enough beds for all of them and they would have to find new accommodation.
Petition launched to protect rest-home residents
The health watchdog also found residents at Leyland Rest Home were not always getting their medicines at the right time.
Watchdog blasts mouldy care home
Minster Rest Home, in Earlsdon, is in the process of being de-registered by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) after a series of surprise inspections uncovered issues which led to the care home being branded "not safe" and "not caring".
Care home will be stripped of licence
An autoregressive structure was used to model the correlations between data from the same rest home or hospital.
Quality and staffing: is there a relationship in residential aged care?
BEIJING, Sha'ban 8, 1436, May 26, 2015, SPA -- Chinese state media is reporting that a rest home fire in central China has killed 38 people and injured six, according to AP.
Rest home fire in central China kills 38
The inferno happaned at a row of bungalows at privately-owned Kangleyuan Rest Home in Pingdingshan City at 7:33 p.m.
38 killed in China nursing home fire
Paquette, 92, passed away peacefully on Thursday, March 12 at Dodge Park Rest Home, just shy of his 93rd birthday-or as he would have put it, he's "been called to go play the big golf course in the sky".
Russell Paquette
(tmc121113overath) | FIREWORK NIGHT: A sparkling evening was had by six-year-old Adele Hirst, of Kirkburton, who was seen well wrapped up for a cold November evening (tmc121113fireworks1) | BONFIRE TREAT: Mr Roger Fleming (centre), a resident at Bell House Rest Home, Wilshaw, near Meltham, joined in the firework fun at a bonfire held there.
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