An institution providing accommodation and care for elderly people.
his father lives in an old folks' home
Example sentencesExamples
- Go ahead, berate your parents, send them to an old folks home and forget to visit.
- The school will find it's been subsidising the lunches of the nearest old folks home.
- We need this old folks home not just for South Ronaldsay but for Orkney.
- It makes other shows sound like hospital radio in an old folks home.
- Your jug band could tour old folks homes, honky tonks and colleges.
- I want to die in an old folks home not in a jail.
- She could recount the story of this history-making encounter over tea while solving a mystery at the old folks home.
- There's a potential loss of "pay as you eat" income from residents in old folks homes.
- The aging baby-boom generation will not likely go quietly to the old folks home.
- I'll be on i.v. tubes in the old folks home.