[Tagging] Too many different features lumped together under amenity=social_facility?

[Paul Allen]

On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 15:41, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com>
wrote:

Also, amenity=nursing_home is still more common than
> social_facility=nursing_home. At least in the USA, a real "nursing
> home" is a "skilled nursing facility" with RNs always on staff, who
> supervise patients getting their medications and physical therapy
> treatment etc - it's sometimes a step-down from a hospital, sometimes
> long-term care when you don't really need a full hospital. It's more
> healthcare than social. While there are non-medical "nursing homes",
> these are under "assisted_living" or "group_home".
>

We have those distinctions in the UK.  Care home versus residential home/
retirement home.  Well, the names blur somewhat.  We have places with
RNs on staff to provide medical supervision.  We have places where
the staff are needed for non-medical care like feeding/bathing/whatever.
We have retirement homes that are more than just condos because there
are elements of shared facilities - individual rooms but shared dining
or something like that.

>
> I would suggest deprecating social_facility=hospice,


Sounds reasonable to me.  Others will undoubtedly disagree.

and I'm also not convinced that social_facility=nursing_home is better

than amenity=nursing_home.
>

Amenity is much larger and much more of an eclectic hodge-podge than
social_facility.  I'm not even sure that amenity=social_facility is a good
idea, but at least you can then refine it with social_facility=*.  Moving
do amenity=nursing_home just makes amenity a bigger mess than it
already is.  And a nursing home is a social facility, not some sort of
recreational POI for the general public.

-- 
Paul
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