nursing home
noun
: a public or private residential facility providing a high level of long-term personal or nursing care for persons (such as the aged or the chronically ill) who are unable to care for themselves properly
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Marge was turning ninety-one while in hospice care in a nursing home in Polk County, Florida.
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Literary Hub, 14 May 2026
This kind of mutual caretaking, physical as well as emotional, prods larger conversations about the state of the world — particularly, Marie-Lou’s nursing home facing a perpetual funding crisis.
—David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2026
Vance and Oz are attacking programs that keep seniors and people with disabilities OUT of nursing homes.
—Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 13 May 2026
Newsom’s office wrote IHSS care costs $30,000 a year, while nursing home care costs $137,000 a year.
—Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
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Literary Hub, 14 May 2026
This kind of mutual caretaking, physical as well as emotional, prods larger conversations about the state of the world — particularly, Marie-Lou’s nursing home facing a perpetual funding crisis.
—David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2026
Vance and Oz are attacking programs that keep seniors and people with disabilities OUT of nursing homes.
—Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 13 May 2026
Newsom’s office wrote IHSS care costs $30,000 a year, while nursing home care costs $137,000 a year.
—Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for nursing home
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“Nursing home.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nursing%20home. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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