home help

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home help

noun home helps

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. The work of the assistant home helps was particularly focused on older people (Simonen, 1990).
Similar: carer
uncountable The aid provided by such people. The origins of the home help service can be traced back to the Sick Room Help Society based in the East End of London.
Similar: home aid, home care

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Italiano	colf, collaboratrice familiare

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@misc{home_help_2026,
  title = {home help},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/home%20help},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}