aftercare vs cure

aftercare

noun
  • The care given to a patient during recovery from an operation or after hospitalization. 

  • Tender affection and care given to a partner after a BDSM activity, usually to serve as a transition between the activity and whatever follows it. 

  • Services and support offered to a customer for the goods or service they have purchased. 

  • Childcare services tending to children after the school day. 

  • Emotional support offered by the programme makers to a person who has appeared on a stressful talk show, etc. 

cure

noun
  • Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury. 

  • That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate. 

  • A method, device or medication that restores good health. 

  • Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate. 

  • A solution to a problem. 

  • A process of solidification or gelling. 

  • A process of preservation, as by smoking. 

  • A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering. 

verb
  • To cause to be rid of (a defect). 

  • To bring about a cure of any kind. 

  • To preserve (food), typically by salting. 

  • To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use. 

  • To solidify or gel. 

  • To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end. 

  • To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use. 

  • To restore to health. 

How often have the words aftercare and cure occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )