The notion of residence can refer to a home.
Residence is a term that comes from the Latin residens and refers to the action and effect of residing (being established in a place, attending periodically for reasons of employment). It may be the place or address where you reside .
For example: “Juan has decided to establish his residence in San Isidro” , “Tell me your place of residence, please” , “To request a loan from this bank you have to establish your residence in the province” .
The residence as a home
A residence is also a house or dwelling . The concept is usually used in relation to luxurious and high-class buildings , such as a mansion: “The businessman held a party at his residence facing the sea,” “Upon entering the residence, the young man was amazed by the decoration and objects of gold” , “The businessman's residence was attacked by hooded men who took the caretaker hostage” .
The residence can even be a space within a building or an independent construction but that belongs to an entity whose main purpose differs from accommodation: “Tomorrow there will be a party in the university student residence.”
The concept in medicine and as an institution
In another sense, residency is a professional and administrative condition of doctors or other health professionals.
The institution that provides accommodation to certain groups of people (established according to their age, occupation, state of health, etc.) is also called a residence: “The mayor visited a nursing home and promised an increase in retirement.” , “Fire in a student residence leaves three young people seriously injured” .
A nursing home shelters older adults.
Nursing home
Nursing homes (also called nursing homes) are centers that temporarily or permanently receive elderly people who depend on certain care for their subsistence. Among the professionals they rely on to care for their residents are doctors with specialization in geriatrics, nurses, physiotherapists, social workers, speech therapists and cooks.
In addition to the technical knowledge specific to each field, the workers of a center of this type must receive constant training , according to current regulations, to guarantee suitability in the performance of their tasks throughout their commitment to the institution and the residents. It is worth mentioning that the number of professionals must be directly proportional to the number of places available, given that they must deal with individuals who, in many cases, require a lot of attention .
Characteristics of these accommodations
The services offered in a nursing home are very varied, although there are a series of requirements established by law: maintenance, insertion into a social group, stimulation of their abilities and occupational therapy. On the other hand, there is medical and psychological care, including the administration of medications and therapy with loved ones.
It is important to highlight that accreditation as a restraint-free center indicates that a residence does not use force to contain and calm those residents who have advanced cognitive impairment. On the other hand, the use of drugs with the same objective is not ethical either; It is essential to ensure that the person receives compassionate treatment before deciding on a facility.
The profiles of the residents can be very varied, and in many cases young people opt for hospitalization so as not to directly take care of their elders; As harsh as it may seem, nursing homes consider this possibility as clearly as cases of significant dependency due to a great deterioration in functional capacities. Outside of family conflicts, some elderly people enter to rehabilitate physical trauma, such as bone fractures, because they are in a vegetative state or suffer from a terminal illness, or because they are alone in the world and without resources to take care of themselves.