Home care

Home care, also known as domiciliary care, is health care provided in the patient's home by healthcare professionals often referred to as home health care or formal care; in the United States, it is known as skilled care or by family and friends also known as caregivers, primary caregiver, or voluntary caregivers who give informal care. Often, the term home care is used to distinguish non-medical care or custodial care, which is care that is provided by persons who are not nurses, doctors, or other licensed medical personnel, whereas the term home health care, refers to care that is provided by such licensed personnel.

Home Care and Home Health Care are phrases that are used interchangeably in the United States, by both laypersons and professionals, to mean any type of care given to a person in their own home. Both phrases are used interchangeably regardless of whether the person requires Skilled Care by professionals or not.Home care aims to enable people to remain at home rather than use residential, long-term, or institutional-based nursing care. Care workers visit service users patients in the person's own home to help with daily tasks such as getting up, going to bed, dressing, toileting, personal hygiene, some household tasks, shopping, cooking and supervision of medication.