On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 15:41, Joseph Eisenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
Also, amenity=nursing_home is still more common than > social_facility=nursing_home. At least in the USA, a real "nursing > home" is a "skilled nursing facility" with RNs always on staff, who > supervise patients getting their medications and physical therapy > treatment etc - it's sometimes a step-down from a hospital, sometimes > long-term care when you don't really need a full hospital. It's more > healthcare than social. While there are non-medical "nursing homes", > these are under "assisted_living" or "group_home". > We have those distinctions in the UK. Care home versus residential home/ retirement home. Well, the names blur somewhat. We have places with RNs on staff to provide medical supervision. We have places where the staff are needed for non-medical care like feeding/bathing/whatever. We have retirement homes that are more than just condos because there are elements of shared facilities - individual rooms but shared dining or something like that. > > I would suggest deprecating social_facility=hospice, Sounds reasonable to me. Others will undoubtedly disagree. and I'm also not convinced that social_facility=nursing_home is better than amenity=nursing_home. > Amenity is much larger and much more of an eclectic hodge-podge than social_facility. I'm not even sure that amenity=social_facility is a good idea, but at least you can then refine it with social_facility=*. Moving do amenity=nursing_home just makes amenity a bigger mess than it already is. And a nursing home is a social facility, not some sort of recreational POI for the general public. -- Paul
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