home help
- noun
- UK
:
ayuda a domicilio
- The local authority provides home help to support seniors who wish to live independently in their own homes.
Examples
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After her stroke, she needed home help to manage household chores and everyday activities.
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Their human contact may consist of their in-home help and the occasional visit to the doctor and dentist.
Academic text (2007) -
She had received an angry phone call from a woman whose mother received home-help assistance from her agency.
Academic text (1998) -
In most advanced industrial countries, home-delivered long-term care services such as homemaker/chore and personal care ("home help") are labeled social rather than health services.
Academic text (1990) -
The average home help provider works as a home caregiver for a year or less caring for a dying loved one—or has cared for their disabled child for decades and hardly needs certification from the state to continue to do so.
Blog text (28) -
However, unlike the United States, where means testing usually limits access to publicly supported homemaker and personal care services to the poor or "near poor," most European countries (for example, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, and France) offer these types of home help to all citizens on a sliding scale, income-related fee basis (which in some countries can reach 100 percent of costs for individuals with higher incomes).
Academic text (1990) -
In many cities, families can rely on home help services to assist their elderly relatives with daily tasks.
Synonyms
136
1.0
A person hired to do work in a home or restaurant
110
1.1
A person who manages household chores and keeps the home clean
8
2.4
A woman paid to clean and do other jobs in a home
7
3.0
People who are paid to do house or farm work
1
2.3
A person who works in a home doing cleaning, cooking and other daily tasks
1
2.6
A person paid to clean and cook in a home
A person who cleans, cooks, or does other work in a home
Antonyms
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person employed to assist with household tasks at someone's home' is directly and transparently compositional from 'home' (place of residence) + 'help' (a person who assists). This simple noun–noun combination follows common patterns across languages and would be obvious to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Home help comes from the simple idea of home (the house) and help (a person who helps). A friendly worker who comes into your house to do cleaning, shopping or cooking lets an older person stay independent, so home help means 'a person who helps with housework and daily tasks in someone's own home'.