life-care

or life care

[ lahyf-kair ]

adjective

1. designed to provide for the basic needs of elderly residents, usually in return for an initial fee and monthly service payments:

   a life-care facility; life-care communities.

Word History and Origins

Origin of life-care¹

First recorded in 1980–85

Example Sentences

Schwarz is a veteran nurse specializing in end-of-life care.

From The Daily Beast

There were a lot of these, from "unnecessary surgery" to "reforming end of life care".

From The Daily Beast

Nobody can sock away $25,000 for an operation or $100,000 for end-of-life care; the very idea is crazy.

From The Daily Beast

At the clinical level, doctors have a financial incentive not to discuss end-of-life care with patients.

From The Daily Beast

The complex issues surrounding end-of-life care will always be painful, because, well, death is painful in so many ways.

From The Daily Beast

How should that race which above all others understands and revels in life care for an art of abstractions?

From Project Gutenberg

For what does Life care what it does to the tender bodies of women?

From Project Gutenberg