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nursing home

NOUN
special care facility for elderly
Synonyms
WEAK
assisted living facility convalescent home convalescent hospital old folks home old folks' home old people's home old soldiers' home rest home retirement facility retirement home

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Lynette Vanhorne, a resident, said in March that her condo isn’t livable, so she is staying at the nursing home where she works.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

And we spoke with a middle-aged woman with schizophrenia and panic disorder who lives with her brother’s family because she can’t hold down a job and fears being left alone in a nursing home.

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026

A study a few years ago found that resident mortality jumped by 10% on average after a nursing home was taken over by private equity.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 24, 2026

Frank Chester, who was born in Ludlow, Shropshire, in April 1917, died at a nursing home in Malvern, Worcestershire, on Sunday, nine days after his birthday.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

What is this business of letting someone in off the street to run a nursing home, or at least a vital chunk of a nursing home, for a day?

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich