2.1 Nursing houses and nursing care

According to NIH-UK (National Institute of Health United Kingdom), a nursing home provides hospital-like care services to people (outpatients, elderly, palliative, etc.) that cannot stay in the hospital for any aftercare or for elderly care.

A nursing home is a place for people who don't need to be in a hospital but can't be cared for at home. Most nursing homes have nursing aides and skilled nurses on hand 24 hours a day. (NIH-UK)

It is worth noting the main risk factors of being admitted to nursing and/or care homes (both are similar but are different regarding the qualification of the carestaff—see care homes vs nursing homes).


Precisely for these reasons, they have a higher chance of being admitted to a nursing home.


Regarding the risk factors of being admitted to nursing or care homes, it is obvious that a group of people can be excluded from being admitted since they would not meet the conditions.
