Tag:social_facility=nursing_home
 social_facility = nursing_home
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A Nursing Home provides permanent care to elderly, ill or disabled people 
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| Group: Social facilities |
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nursing home is a facility providing permanent nursing care, 24 hours a day, as well as social and medical services; supporting residents with their elementary activities of daily living. Residents include elderly or seriously ill people, and such with physical and mental disabilities.
How to tag?
Set a node at the center or draw as an area along the outline of the feature. Add the tags amenity=social_facility + social_facility=nursing_home, and specify the target group with social_facility:for=*, e.g. senior, disabled, mental_health.
Tags to use in combination
- name=* - the name of the feature
- operator=* - indicates the operator or name of the company operating the feature
- addresses - the address of the feature
- opening_hours=* - hours when the feature is open
- phone=* - phone number of the feature
- website=* - website of the feature
- wheelchair=no/yes/limited - whether the feature is suitable for wheelchairs
- social_facility:for=*
- social_facility:for=senior
- social_facility:for=disabled
Facilities that might fit to that tag
- Nursing home
- Care home
Similar Facilities
- amenity=social_facility + social_facility=day_care - A non-residential facility that provides nursing services on a daily basis to people
- amenity=social_facility + social_facility=assisted_living - A residential facility providing some support, such as access to a nurse and an emergency call system, but the residents are more independent (e.g., have own flats)
Alternative tags
1. Note: Between Oct 2010 - Jun 2016, Nursing Homes were subsumed under the value social_facility=group_home, with further tagging the target group. If you know a Nursing Home still tagged Group Home, better fitting the definition above, please migrate the tag to social_facility=nursing_home. Please check each case individually, Automated edits are discouraged.
social_facility=group_home
2. While this page describes the more recent approach of sub-tagging nursing homes as social facilities, an older first-level tag is still found in the database: amenity=nursing_home.
amenity=nursing_home