Tag:social_facility=nursing_home
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A nursing home provides permanent care to elderly, ill, or disabled people. ![]() |
Group: social facilities |
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Status: de facto |
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A 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 centre 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 featureoperator=*
- indicates the operator or name of the company operating the feature- addresses - the address of the feature
opening_hours=*
- hours when the feature is openphone=*
- phone number of the featurewebsite=*
- website of the featurewheelchair=no/yes/limited
- whether the feature is suitable for wheelchairssocial_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
- Note: Between Oct 2010 - Jun 2016, nursing homes were subsumed by the tag
social_facility=group_home
, then further tagging the target group. If you know a nursing home still tagged group home, better fitting the definition above, please migrate the tag tosocial_facility=nursing_home
. Please check each case individually, automated edits are discouraged.
social_facility=group_home
- 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