And the mostly minimum-wage aides, who provide the bulk of hands-on care, form close bonds with residents by working the same unit every day.

The average nursing home resident receives about 70 minutes a day of actual hands-on care, mostly from aides, he said.

Other kinds of long-distance support - for aging parents, for example - demand the ultimate in hands-on care.

Congregational health workers do not perform hands-on medical care beyond perhaps conducting churchwide blood pressure tests.

That is when they have to have hands-on care.

I hadn't been involved in hands-on medical care for years.

And enrolled nurses, who were well trained, and did the more hands-on care, have been phased out.

People who provide the necessary hands-on care.

At $70 to $150 an hour, geriatric care managers generally do not offer hands-on care.

Provide hands-on care, including bathing, help eating, toileting, or other help?