home help
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.48 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person employed, especially by a social services department, to perform household chores and provide aid to a patient or infirm person in the latter's own home; a carer.
Example Sentences
- "The work of the assistant home helps was particularly focused on older people (Simonen, 1990)."
- "Home helps performed domestic and social care tasks (cleaning, for example, or helping clients shop or collect pensions)."
- "The origins of the home help service can be traced back to the Sick Room Help Society based in the East End of London."
- "2005, Wienke G. W. Boerma, Carl-Andy Dubois, 2: Mapping primary care across Europe, Richard Saltman, Ana Rico, Wienke G. W. Boerma, Primary care in the driver's seat?: Organizational reform in European primary care, page 33, In contrast to home nursing, home help services are not a part of health care but are considered as social services, except in Ireland, the Netherlands and to some degree in Germany."