nursing home

English

Noun

nursing home (plural nursing homes)

1. A place of residence for people who require constant nursing care and have significant deficiencies with activities of daily living, such as the elderly and younger adults with physical disabilities.

Synonyms

• care home
• old-age home
• old folks' home (US)
• old people's home
• rest home
• senior citizens' home (US)

Translations

place of residence

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: (for elderly) ծերանոց (hy) (ceranocʿ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 療養院 (zh), 疗养院 (zh) (liáoyǎngyuàn), 養老院 (zh), 养老院 (zh) (yǎnglǎoyuàn), 敬老院 (zh) (jìnglǎoyuàn)

• Finnish: hoitokoti (fi)
• French: maison de repos (fr) f
• German: Pflegeheim (de) n
• Greek: γηροκομείο (el) n (girokomeío), οίκος ευγηρίας (el) m (oíkos evgirías)
• Icelandic: hjúkrunarheimili (is) n
• Irish: teach altranais m
• Italian: casa di riposo

• Japanese: (for elderly) 老人ホーム (rōjin hōmu), 養護ホーム (yōgo hōmu)
• Korean: 요양원 (yoyang-won)
• Luxembourgish: Fleegeheem n
• Portuguese: asilo (pt) m, casa de repouso f
• Russian: (for elderly) дом престаре́лых m (dom prestarélyx), ча́стная лече́бница f (částnaja lečébnica)
• Scottish Gaelic: taigh-altraim m
• Serbo-Croatian: starački dom, dom za starije i nemoćne osobe
• Spanish: asilo (es) m
• Swedish: ålderdomshem (sv) n (for elderly), äldreboende (sv) n, åldringshem (sv) n (Finland Swedish)
• Welsh: cartref nyrsio m