"object of care" is a perfectly acceptable phrase to use in written English.
It typically means something or someone that is looked after with particular care and attention. For example, "The safety of our guests is our top priority--they are the object of our care."
A grumpy person is just annoying, but a victim of S.A.D. is an object of care and sympathy.
The examination turns the individual into a "case"—in both senses of the term: a scientific example and an object of care.
The object of care is to modify, reduce or eliminate the signs and symptoms of disease.
Family, in fact, is an object of care, together with the patient.
The patient, who was previously the object of care, has become the subject of care or a partner in care.
This fact highlights the need to involve family members in the TB patient care process and also include them as an object of care.
Mullin (2007, 2014) argues that consideration of children's capacity for autonomy should operate with a relatively minimal understanding of autonomy as self-governance in the service of what the person cares about (with the objects of care conceived broadly to include principles, relationships, activities and things).
These findings suggest that while patients have historically been conceptualised as objects of care, they are instead active components within systems of care delivery who experience their health concerns, healthcare and social lives simultaneously.
The Convention changed the way children are viewed and treated – i.e., as human beings with a distinct set of rights instead of as passive objects of care and charity.
On 20 November 1989, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), thereby recognizing children as having distinct rights rather than being the passive objects of care and protection.
The logic of a priority setting approach that seeks to identify how most efficiently to reduce burden on sub-populations of disease/health conditions/risk factors derives from the object of health care, which is the health of populations, not the provision of health care as an end in itself.
