WElderly care, or simply eldercare, is the fulfillment of the special needs and requirements that are unique to senior citizens. This broad term encompasses such services as assisted living, adult day care, long term care, nursing homes, hospice care, and home care. Because of the wide variety of elderly care found nationally, as well as differentiating cultural perspectives on elderly citizens, it cannot be limited to any one practice. For example, many countries in Asia use government-established elderly care quite infrequently, preferring the traditional methods of being cared for by younger generations of family members.
WA Place for Mom, founded in 2000, is a privately held, for-profit senior care referral service based in Seattle, Washington. The company provides personal and professional assistance to families in the search of senior care options. A majority of the company is owned since August 2017 by equity capital firms General Atlantic and Silver Lake. Its spokesperson is former Good Morning America host Joan Lunden.
WAn adult daycare center is typically a non-residential facility that supports the health, nutritional, social, and daily living needs of adults in a professionally staffed, group setting. These facilities provide adults with transitional care and short-term rehabilitation following hospital discharge. The majority of centers provide meals, meaningful activities, and general supervision. The care provided is often a social model or a medical model provided in order to improve participants health and guide their progress in the right direction.
WAn almshouse is charitable housing provided to people in a particular community. They are often targeted at the poor of a locality, at those from certain forms of previous employment, or their widows, and at elderly people who can no longer pay rent, and are generally maintained by a charity or the trustees of a bequest. Almshouses were originally formed as extensions of the church system and were later adapted by local officials and authorities.
WBlack Country Housing Group is a registered social housing association based in Birmingham and the Black Country in the British Midlands. The organisation is responsible for the provision of affordable housing with properties in excess of 2,000 homes. These properties range from newly constructed homes to established dwellings built in the 20th Century.
WBluebird Care is a franchise and brand providing home care services to the United Kingdom and Ireland. The company has just over 200 franchises covering areas in the United Kingdom and a further 26 in the Republic of Ireland.
WCaremark Limited is a home care services network of franchises specialising in both private-pay and state-funded home care. It was founded by Kevin Lewis, Chief Executive, in 2005 and is based in Worthing.
WCera Care is a London-based technology-enabled home care company. It allows families to arrange and manage home care for elderly relatives and uses a digital platform to match people seeking in-home assistance with carers.
WCycling Without Age (CWA) is a Nonprofit organization founded in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2012. By 2020, this initiative has expanded into 50 countries, serving over 1.5 million people worldwide.
WThe Duke Street Hospital was a health facility on Duke Street in Glasgow, Scotland.
WGrandPad is an American technology company that produces a touch-screen tablet computer intended to be used by senior citizens. The device's interface is designed to be more user-friendly than traditional mobile tablets. It allows users to engage in video chats, view pictures, check news, and send messages.
WThe Home for the Aged Men and Women also sometimes known as the Home for the Aged, Poor and Infants was a charitable organization located on H Street NE between 2nd Street NE and 3rd Street NE next to the train line running down I Street NE. This was a working class neighborhood next to Swampoodle. It was organized and managed by the Little Sisters of the Poor and provided housing, food and care for elderly men and women who had no relatives to take care of them, regardless of religion or race. The Sisters would beg for their needs as well as for those of their residents as prescribed by their order. It opened on March 19th 1873 and expending for the rest of the 19th Century. It became a place of life for many older destitute individuals with the yearly distraction of the high society of Diplomats and Socialites of Washington, DC visiting the Home on Saint Joseph's Day. I survived the 1968 riots but was a victim of the 1970s urban movement focused on freeways and cars. Today, it is a luxury apartment complex off of H Street and its many restaurants and bars.
WHome Instead Senior Care UK is a network of franchises specialising relationship-led domiciliary care for the elderly, in support of aging in place. It is a franchise of Home Instead Senior Care which is based in Nebraska and was founded in 1994. It has 210 franchised offices across the UK, employing more than 13,000 people. It was one of the 20 most recommended providers in the Home Care Awards 2019. It achieved an overall rating of 9.9 out of 10.
WThe COVID-19 pandemic has impacted long-term care facilities and nursing homes around the world. Thousands of residents of these facilities, who are a high-risk group, have died of the disease.
WInstituto Nacional de las Personas Adultas Mayores (INAPAM) is a Mexican public welfare organization for families, composed of offices run by both federal and state governments. INAPAM offers programs to improve the well-being of the elderly. Services include providing education regarding physical and mental health, hosting different cultural activities, and holding job expositions. Also, INAPAM offers training for people 65 years-of-age and older to become authorized caretakers for the elderly.
WLightburn Hospital is a health facility in Carntyne Road, Glasgow, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
WLong-term care (LTC) is a variety of services which help meet both the medical and non-medical needs of people with a chronic illness or disability who cannot care for themselves for long periods. Long term care is focused on individualized and coordinated services that promote independence, maximize patients' quality of life, and meet patients' needs over a period of time.
WSunrise Senior Living, LLC is an American operator of retirement homes and other housing for senior citizens. As of 2017, it operates over 320 assisted living facilities throughout the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, making it the fifth-largest senior living provider in the U.S.