The patients are homebound, and have difficulty accessing outpatient care in the usual settings.

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So for now, Ahmed is homebound and only goes to school two days a week.

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This small, inexpensively made independent movie has become a commercial phenomenon, drawing out homebound older moviegoers who had largely been resigned to watching sitcoms.

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One of the great things about fly fishing is that its practitioners, like me, are able to stay in touch with it even when we are homebound, marooned in trout-less urban landscapes.

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Many involve creating task forces or crafting better plans to address such needs as restoring power, distributing food and water, checking on homebound people and returning patients to evacuated hospitals once they're running.

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By going to serve.gov, this program will connect Americans to opportunities like delivering meals to homebound seniors, offering professional skills at a food pantry, or planting a community garden and sharing produce with neighbors.

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