home helps

Noun

home help (plural home helps)

1. 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).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...

   Synonyms:

   carer

2. (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.1994, Christina R. Victor, Old Age in Modern Society: A Textbook of Social Gerontology, 2nd edition, page 219

   Synonyms:

   home aid, home care