A person employed, especially by a social services department, to perform household chores and provide aid to a patient or infirm person in the latter's own home; a carer.
The aid provided by such people.
A female domestic worker attached to the non-servant quarter part of the house, as opposed to a scullery maid.
A housewife.
To be a housemaid.
To wait on someone hand on foot, to watch them.