A visit to a person's home, especially one made by a health-care professional or social worker.
British women receive regular home visits from midwives
Example sentencesExamples
- Home visits are usually confined to a brief meeting over tea.
- It entailed active attempts to engage fathers in child-focused home visits.
- He conducted two home visits in each parent's home.
- The doctor arranged a home visit by deputy.
- She has done a lot of outreach with her home visits.
- By 1946, an incredible 85 per cent of all babies were seen by one of nearly 200 nurses who made 220,000 home visits.
- He immediately arranged for a home visit by a consultant psychiatrist, who saw the claimant on the following day.
- He undertook 12 sessions with Richard, the first of which was a home visit.
- Solicitors will be forbidden to offer hospital or home visits.
- The two-hour limit is invariably exceeded in cases where a client's disability necessitates a home visit.