Health Care

Home Care Services

Community health and NURSING SERVICES providing coordinated multiple services to the patient at the patient's homes. These home-care services are provided by a visiting nurse, home health agencies, HOSPITALS, or organized community groups using professional staff for care delivery. It differs from HOME NURSING which is provided by non-professionals.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Community health and NURSING SERVICES providing coordinated multiple services to the patient at the patient's homes. These home-care services are provided by a visiting nurse, home health agencies, HOSPITALS, or organized community groups using professional staff for care delivery. It differs from HOME NURSING which is provided by non-professionals.

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Synonyms

9 entry terms
  • Care Services, Home
  • Domiciliary Care
  • Services, Home Care
  • Care, Domiciliary
  • Home Care Service
  • Service, Home Care
  • Home Care
  • Home Health Care
  • Care, Home

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Aspects Covered

10 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, supply & distribution, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

coordinate with specific home care

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History Note

67; was HOME CARE SERVICE 1966

MeSH Hierarchy

Tree Numbers

  1. N02.421.143.524
  2. N02.421.539.089

AMA Style

References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Home Care Services. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D006699. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D006699
  2. Home Care Services. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70448685