Any of a brand of cheerful bear figures, seen on greeting cards and as stuffed toys.

(medicine) Health care treatment requiring very specialized expertise and advanced equipment and usually delivered within a medical facility.

(euphemistic) Taking care of those who have memory disorders.

(colloquial) Palliative care.

(idiomatic, dated, chiefly in the negative) To care (at all).

A technique practiced on newborn, usually premature, infants wherein the infant is held, skin-to-skin, with an adult.

The provision of short-term, temporary relief to a person who provides regular care to an individual.

maintenance and sustenance (of something, organic or otherwise)

Synonym of helping profession

plural of caring profession