short-stay

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Long periods of time
-athon
a long haulidiom
aeon
age
be in something for the long haulidiom
donkey
eon
epoch
era
eternity
for days, weeks, months, years, etc.
forever
forever and a dayidiom
good
haul
long
month
not in a month of Sundaysidiom
time
yonks

Examples of long-stay

long-stay
Fewer hospital staff seem prepared to accept long-stay patients as one of their functions.
The question to be resolved is how this can be maximised without damaging the quality of life of long-stay residents.
Long-term outcome of long-stay psychiatric in-patients considered unsuitable to live in the community.
There were 1,373 long-stay residents in these homes, and 452 were randomly selected for the study.
Using direct observation to record the behaviour of long-stay patients with dementia.
She does, however, have the most clear-cut alternatives - an active, independent life, or placement in long-stay care.
Related to the slow acceptance of the need to profile people with dementia systematically in long-stay care is the increasing use of very full records.
The findings support the original theory that introducing consultant medical supervision into long-stay care would foster rehabilitation.
The mortality of long-stay patients following interhospital relocation.
At least two-thirds of the elderly long-stay patients were admitted before their sixty-fifth birthday.
Present policies favor development of the long-stay and medium-stay sectors and reduction of the short-stay sector.
These people have special needs in long-stay care.
Some respite care residents felt that the homes that they went to were depressing, particularly the state of other long-stay residents.
Although numbers in certain categories were small this held true for short-, mediumand long-stay inmates.
We are in a phase of rapid change and innovation in long-stay care for people with dementia.
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