"home help" meaning in English

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        "plural"
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        {
          "ref": "2003, Tempo Kröger, Anneli Anttonen, Jorma Sipilä, “2: Social Care in Finland: Stronger and Weaker Forms of Universalism”, in Anneli Anttonen, John Baldock, Jorma Sipilä, editors, The Young, the Old, and the State, page 32",
          "text": "The work of the assistant home helps was particularly focused on older people (Simonen, 1990).",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Roger Sapsford, Survey Research, page 24",
          "text": "Home helps performed domestic and social care tasks (cleaning, for example, or helping clients shop or collect pensions).",
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      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
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          "aid",
          "aid"
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          "patient",
          "patient"
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          "carer",
          "carer"
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        {
          "_dis1": "86 14",
          "sense": "person paid to do chores and provide aid in another's home",
          "word": "carer"
        }
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      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "person",
          "word": "kotiavustaja"
        },
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "person",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "colf"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "person",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "collaboratrice familiare"
        },
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "service",
          "word": "kotipalvelu"
        }
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          "ref": "1994, Christina R. Victor, Old Age in Modern Society: A Textbook of Social Gerontology, 2nd edition, page 219",
          "text": "The origins of the home help service can be traced back to the Sick Room Help Society based in the East End of London.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "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,\nIn 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."
        }
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        "The aid provided by such people."
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        "(uncountable) The aid provided by such people."
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      "_dis1": "48 52",
      "sense": "provision of the services of such people",
      "word": "home aid"
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    {
      "_dis1": "48 52",
      "sense": "provision of the services of such people",
      "word": "home care"
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  "word": "home help"
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2003, Tempo Kröger, Anneli Anttonen, Jorma Sipilä, “2: Social Care in Finland: Stronger and Weaker Forms of Universalism”, in Anneli Anttonen, John Baldock, Jorma Sipilä, editors, The Young, the Old, and the State, page 32",
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        "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."
      ],
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          "aid",
          "aid"
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          "ref": "1994, Christina R. Victor, Old Age in Modern Society: A Textbook of Social Gerontology, 2nd edition, page 219",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "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,\nIn 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."
        }
      ],
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        "The aid provided by such people."
      ],
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        "(uncountable) The aid provided by such people."
      ],
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    {
      "sense": "person paid to do chores and provide aid in another's home",
      "word": "carer"
    },
    {
      "sense": "provision of the services of such people",
      "word": "home aid"
    },
    {
      "sense": "provision of the services of such people",
      "word": "home care"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "person",
      "word": "kotiavustaja"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "person",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "colf"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "person",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "collaboratrice familiare"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "service",
      "word": "kotipalvelu"
    }
  ],
  "word": "home help"
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