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life-care

[lahyf-kair]
–adjective
designed to provide for the basic needs of elderly residents, usu. in return for an initial fee and monthly service payments: a life-care facility; life-care communities.
Also, life care.


Origin:
1980–85
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life care also life·care   (līf'kâr')
n.  The provision of services for elderly people, including housing, health care, and social activities.
adj.   also life-care (līf'kâr')
Of or relating to life care: life care programs; life-care communities.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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