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DAY CARE CENTRE [3 records]

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Record 1 2009-09-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Services and Social Work
Key term(s)
  • day care center
  • day center

French

Domaine(s)
  • Services sociaux et travail social
DEF

Service qui fait partie d'un établissement ou qui en relève et où l'on reçoit pendant la journée des personnes ayant besoin de soins ou de services sociaux.

OBS

centre de jour : Terme et définition recommandés par l'OLF.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Servicios sociales y trabajo social
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Record 2 2005-12-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Services and Social Work
DEF

A social service facility which provides a variety of services, including recreation and in some cases certain health care services, to non-institutionalized individuals, often as a means of avoiding institutionalization.

OBS

Day centers are provided for groups such as the old, the mentally or physically [disabled persons], and delinquents. A term used chiefly in the U.S. and Canada.

OBS

Day center should be distinguished from day care center and day hospital, but sometimes the terms are used interchangeably.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Services sociaux et travail social
DEF

Installation dans laquelle sont groupés un certain nombre de services et de soins pour personnes âgées capable de se déplacer.

OBS

Équivalent adopté par le Comité de normalisation de la terminologie des services sociaux.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Servicios sociales y trabajo social
CONT

Los Hogares de Día para la Tercera Edad son centros diurnos de atención no permanente, cuya dinámica funcional se estructura en torno a la actividad: reflexiva, recreativa, expresiva, productiva y preventiva; favoreciendo desde lo institucional la creación de un ámbito donde rescatar la potencialidad del adulto mayor y facilitando la reconstitución de redes sociales.

OBS

Los objetivos [...] son: prevenir la institucionalización, potenciar las capacidades mentales y físicas de los pacientes, ofrecer cuidados personales básicos, proporcionar el tratamiento y la rehabilitación, servir de soporte a los cuidadores, y orientar y aconsejar a los pacientes y a sus cuidadores.

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Record 3 1995-06-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Federal Government Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
OBS

House of Commons.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
OBS

Chambre des communes

Spanish

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