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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a rest home" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a facility that provides accommodation and care for elderly or disabled individuals who need assistance with daily living activities.
Example: "After her surgery, she decided to stay in a rest home for a few weeks to recover and receive the necessary care."
Alternatives: "nursing home" or "assisted living facility".
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"It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak".
He then goes either to a hotel or a rest home full of other sick persons.
We say, for example, 'decide whether it's time for grandma to move into a rest home'.
8.04pm: Julie visits her mother at a rest home in the country.
In 1945, the State of New York bought the property as a rest home for veterans suffering from shell shock.
At a rest home in Alagir, an hour's drive from the border, aid workers sat alone, eating sardines.
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Mild winters draw many birds to the Caspian coast, and nature reserves provide a resting home for flamingos, swans, pelicans, herons, egrets, sandpipers, and partridges.
The basic concept remains the same: the three films double as a rest-home for the sprightly, well-preserved stars of the aforesaid action movies, and a clearinghouse for old-before-their-time members of a younger generation of performers, who range from bona fide performers such as Statham, and graduates of the professional fight game like Randy Couture.
A golf course has been turned into an Army training ground, a former mansion is a girls' rest home.
There is a tradition of Judaism in Eastbourne, and a Jewish rest home.
It needs a home — hence the morphing of the hospital from a sad rest home to its present gleaming industrial self.
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