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The Kerala model refers to the practices adopted by the Indian state of Kerala to further human development. It is characterised by results showing strong social indicators when compared to the rest of the country such as high literacy and life expectancy rates, highly improved access to healthcare, and low infant mortality and birth rates.
India Home Health Care (IHHC) established in 2009 by V.Thiyagarajan provides home health care and home nursing services in Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune and Mumbai in India. It has 800 employees, registered nurses, associate nurses and medical caretakers across these cities. [1] IHHC announced expansion into Hyderabad & Pune in 2014. [2]
Medicine. Medicine is the science [1] and practice [2] of caring for patients, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.
Home healthcare. Home healthcare and home nursing are also a growing phenomena in India. India Home Health Care is one such service provider, based in Chennai and Bangalore with over 300 nurses. Now, on-demand platforms like "Treat at Home" app are providing services like doctor home visit, nursing, caretaking and physiotherapy to patients at ...
Activities of daily living ( ADLs) is a term used in healthcare to refer to an individual's daily self-care activities. Health professionals often use a person's ability or inability to perform ADLs as a measure of their functional status. The concept of ADLs was originally proposed in the 1950s by Sidney Katz and his team at the Benjamin Rose ...
The word Tirunelveli is derived from three Tamil words: thiru, nel and veli, meaning "sacred paddy hedge". History Sculpted pillar in Nellaiappar Temple (the largest temple in Tirunelveli) Tirunelveli was under the rule of Pandya kings as their secondary capital; Madurai was the empire's primary capital.
A nursing home is a facility for the residential care of older people, senior citizens, or disabled people. [1] Nursing homes may also be referred to as care homes, skilled nursing facilities (SNF) or long-term care facilities. Often, these terms have slightly different meanings to indicate whether the institutions are public or private, and ...
Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health professionals and allied health fields. Medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, midwifery, nursing, optometry ...