rest home
noun
: an establishment that provides housing and general care for the aged or the convalescent
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Meanwhile, the actual author of the masterpiece — the movie’s co-screenwriter, Herman J. Mankiewicz — was tucked away in a rest home in Victorville, dictating the script to his secretary.
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Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
For having moved her, with her consent, to be sure, and at the cost of much complicated paperwork, into this first-class rest home?
—Marie Ndiaye, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
And Tom Steward is highly agitated as Jeremy, a lonely New Mexican who’s in over his head as the rest home’s manager.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022
Magnolia Street is blocked off once a year for a party and Mangold always came, either from the rest home in Berkeley or in El Cerrito.
—Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 July 2022
Tanaka had survived colorectal cancer and was living in a rest home.
—NBC News, 25 Apr. 2022
The title sleuth is a delightful 83-year-old widower enlisted by a private detective to go undercover in a rest home to find out if a client’s mother is being mistreated.
—Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2021
Dora was having a hard time dealing with the loneliness of sheltering at home during the pandemic and not being able to visit her husband, who is in a rest home.
—Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Aug. 2020
Doctors around the state still worry that the virus could get a foothold in rest homes, prisons or among the teeming homeless population in places like Los Angeles’ skid row.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2020
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Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
For having moved her, with her consent, to be sure, and at the cost of much complicated paperwork, into this first-class rest home?
—Marie Ndiaye, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
And Tom Steward is highly agitated as Jeremy, a lonely New Mexican who’s in over his head as the rest home’s manager.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022
Magnolia Street is blocked off once a year for a party and Mangold always came, either from the rest home in Berkeley or in El Cerrito.
—Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 July 2022
Tanaka had survived colorectal cancer and was living in a rest home.
—NBC News, 25 Apr. 2022
The title sleuth is a delightful 83-year-old widower enlisted by a private detective to go undercover in a rest home to find out if a client’s mother is being mistreated.
—Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2021
Dora was having a hard time dealing with the loneliness of sheltering at home during the pandemic and not being able to visit her husband, who is in a rest home.
—Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Aug. 2020
Doctors around the state still worry that the virus could get a foothold in rest homes, prisons or among the teeming homeless population in places like Los Angeles’ skid row.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2020
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“Rest home.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rest%20home. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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