A "nursing home" is a special place where people who can't take care of themselves live. In a nursing home, there are employees who may do some of these services:

• give you medicine
• help you stand up or get into a wheelchair to move around
• bring you meals
• help you if you fall down and hurt yourself
• help to dress or bathe you

Most commonly, very old people live in nursing homes. Sometimes people with extreme disabilities also need to live in a nursing home.