homebound


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Synonyms for homebound

people who are confined to their homes

confined usually by illness

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Due to slow vehicular movement on Dhaka-Tangail highway, homebound people of the north were enduring delays for 10 hours, said Mosharaf Hossain, manager of Hanif Paribahan.
Since many of MOWTampa's recipients are homebound, this program is designed to encourage activities to increase mobility and decrease tension.
Homebound residents cannot come to the library, so they bring the library to them.
* Donations can also go to provide mileage and a stipend to senior companion volunteers who are seniors themselves, providing chores and companionship to other homebound older people.
Sudais was homebound since three years due to partial paralysis of his body and his inability to physically attend a school.
Not only does this offer fun and items of many kinds for shoppers, it provides food for homebound seniors in Horry County who depend on the Council on Aging to make certain that they eat.
"The homebound population of older adults is 50 percent larger than the nursing home population in this country but almost completely invisible," says senior author Sarah Szanton, PhD, ANP, FAAN, associate professor and PhD program director at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing.
The new tenant is Wayside Out-Reach Development, Inc., a not-for-profit organization providing home-delivered meals to Brooklyn homebound elderly.
The poetry collection Airstream has already earned the accolade of being a finalist in Homebound Publications' poetry contest--but that's not why it's being recommended, here.
-- A pharmacy here that is so committed to its community that it sometimes delivers groceries to homebound patients has been named the Medicine Shoppe International Franchisee of the Year by Cardinal Health Inc.
Courageously, Jazmine decides to be brave and explore visiting a warmer state with her friend Bagel, saying an emotional goodbye to her homebound beagle friends, Kurt and Gert.