Hi Greg Thanks for useful input - agree that US 'assisted living' = UK 'sheltered accommodation'. Medical care (or at least nursing care) is indeed the key difference. Although a Brit I have lived twice in the USA (as well as briefly in Germany) so am reasonably au fait with the THREE ((;>) totally different languages! I even own a British-American American-British bilingual dictionary! But I still make mistakes - like asking an American lady business visitor once (when checking her into a hotel) when she would like to be knocked up in the morning ... Also did media training in the US (as a conversion course from doing PR in the UK) - and that was a real eye-opener!
Cheers! -----Original Message----- From: Greg Troxel [mailto:g...@ir.bbn.com] Sent: 06 August 2009 13:01 To: Mike Harris Cc: 'David Earl'; 'Birgit Huesken'; talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Residential home "Mike Harris" <mik...@googlemail.com> writes: > David's summary is imho a good one. There are subtle but not > hard-and-fast distinctions between 'sheltered accommodation' for those > who can manage in their own place but need a warden around (and > perhaps a community room or a public kitchen) and 'nursing home' for > those in need of greater care, including nursing care. The normal > progression is from 'sheltered accommodation' to 'nursing home' (to > cemetery!). David and Birgit are FWIW in the US we use "assisted living" for what I think you mean by "sheltered accomodation", and also use "nursing home". The difference is that the help in assisted living is not 'medical care'. (I'm not trying to argue with the name - but I often find wiki pages that say things that might look like residential=sheltered_accomodation : Use this for a sheltered accomodation. to be not all that useful, since people either know what the words mean or they don't. A lot of UK terms aren't obvious to us Yanks, and I'm sure it's the other way around. > correct to distinguish 'shelter' - which in British English - is quite > different from 'sheltered accommodation' and is indeed a more > temporary arrangement for people, e.g. homeless, victims of domestic > violence etc. who need a temporary place to go while sorting out their > lives. I.e. people entering 'sheltered accommodation' usually leave it > only for a 'nursing home' (or the grave) while most people entering a > 'shelter' will sooner or later resume a more normal lifestyle. We use 'shelter' in the same sense, more or less. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk