Talk:Home care

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Home care is very often non-medical. Frail elderly requiring help with the daily activities such as bathing, cooking, medication supervision etc.

Spam link

The external link I added to this page was recently deleted by another user named Leuko and labeled spam. I respectfully request a review of this link by another editor, in the hopes that the link can be re-added to the page. While the page is on a commercial website, I don't believe that discredits the content of the page as spam.

Here is the link in question:

Top 7 Things to Consider When Considering a Home Care Bed

I believe the content of this article is relevant and adds value to the topic of Home Care. Instead of an external link, would it make more sense to include this information in the body of the article, with a link to the original source as a reference? I also considered creating a Home Care Bed topic in Wikipedia to explain what a home care bed is and how they work, and put the external link there, but that idea seemed a little ambitious for me at the time. If the consensus is that the proposed external link is inappropriate here, would either of these two ideas be acceptable?

Fauxpaw 20:14, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

We always encourage new content. However, a commercial link usually does not meet reliable sources guidelines, and would not be suitable for a reference. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 22:26, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Restructure

This needs to be restructured so that the general concept comes first, and then (and only then) the particular variations that depend on where you live. WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:10, 14 December 2007 (UTC)