Care may refer to:

Organizations and projects

CARE (New Zealand) The Citizens Association for Racial Equality (CARE) was a New Zealand organisation that fought against racism towards minority groups in New Zealand. During the 1960s, CARE attacked policies such as the common de facto policy of banks not to emplo ...

, Citizens Association for Racial Equality, a former New Zealand organisation *

CARE (England) CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, formerly Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) is a major international humanitarian aid, humanitarian agency delivering emergency relief and long-term international development pr ...

West Midlands, Central Accident Resuscitation Emergency team, a team of doctors & paramedics *

CARE International CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, formerly Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) is a major international humanitarian agency delivering emergency relief and long-term international development projects. Founded i ...

, Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, an international aid and development organization * Care.com, a company operating an online portal *

Carpet America Recovery Effort The Carpet America Recovery Effort or CARE is a joint industry-government non-profit organization whose mission is to develop market-based solutions for recovering value from discarded carpet. CARE was established on January 8, 2002 and their init ...

, an American carpet recycling project * Charged Aerosol Release Experiment, a NASA project concerning dust in space * Christian Action Research and Education, a Christian lobby group in the United Kingdom * Credit Abuse Resistance Education, an American national program * Crew Module Atmospheric Re-entry Experiment, a 2014 ISRO experimental vehicle

People with the surname

* Danny Care (soccer) (born 1974), American soccer player *

Danny Care Daniel Stuart Care (born 2 January 1987) is an English professional rugby union player who played as a scrum-half for Premiership Rugby club Harlequins and the England national team. Early life Care was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire. He ...

(born 1987), English rugby union player * Henry Care (1646–1688), English political writer and journalist *

Peter Care Peter Alan Care (born 28 April 1953) is an English director of music videos, commercials and film. He has directed music videos for Cabaret Voltaire, R.E.M., Bruce Springsteen, Roy Orbison, Depeche Mode and New Order, amongst others. Biograp ...

(born 1953), British film and video producer * Terry John Care (born 1947), American politician

Philosophy and science

*Care or ''Sorge'', a term in Heideggerian terminology * Cura (mythology) or Care, figure in ancient Roman ''Fabulae'' of Hyginus *

Duty of care In Tort, tort law, a duty of care is a legal Law of obligations, obligation that is imposed on an individual, requiring adherence to a standard of care, standard of Reasonable person, reasonable care to avoid careless acts that could foreseeab ...

, a legal obligation in tort law *

Ethics of care The ethics of care (alternatively care ethics or EoC) is a normative ethical theory that holds that moral action centers on interpersonal relationships and care or benevolence as a virtue. EoC is one of a cluster of normative ethical theories th ...

, a normative ethical theory * Theology of relational care, a theology of understanding how contemporary followers of Jesus can relate to others *

Vulnerability and Care Theory of Love James Giles (born 1958) is a Canadian philosopher and psychologist. He has written about the philosophy of perception, personal identity and the self,James B. Sauer (1997)''No Self to be Found: The Search for Personal Identity'' by James Giles ...

, the view that care is an integral part of romantic love

Social concepts

Child care Child care, also known as day care, is the care and supervision of one or more children, typically ranging from three months to 18 years old. Although most parents spend a significant amount of time caring for their child(ren), childcare typica ...

, the act of caring for and supervising minor children *

Day care Child care, also known as day care, is the care and supervision of one or more children, typically ranging from three months to 18 years old. Although most parents spend a significant amount of time caring for their child(ren), childcare typica ...

, the care of a child during the day by a person other than the child's parents or legal guardians *

Elderly care Elderly care, or simply eldercare (also known in parts of the English-speaking world as aged care), serves the needs of old adults. It encompasses assisted living, adult daycare, long-term care, nursing homes (often called residential care), ...

, the fulfillment of the special needs and requirements that are unique to senior citizens *

Foster care Foster care is a system in which a minor has been placed into a ward, group home ( residential child care community or treatment centre), or private home of a state- certified caregiver, referred to as a "foster parent", or with a family mem ...

, a system by which a certified, stand-in "parent(s)" cares for minor children or young people *

Health care Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement or maintenance of health via the preventive healthcare, prevention, diagnosis, therapy, treatment, wikt:amelioration, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other disability, physic ...

, the treatment and management of illness, and the preservation of health through services offered **

Care of residents Residential care refers to long-term care given to adults or children who stay in a residential setting rather than in their own home or family home. There are various residential care options available, depending on the needs of the individual. ...

, care given to adults or children outside of the patient's home **

Home care Homecare (home care, in-home care, care at home), also known as domiciliary care, personal care, community care, or social care, is health care or supportive care provided in the individual home where the patient or client is living, generally focu ...

, health care or supportive care provided in the patient's home by healthcare professionals **

Primary care Primary care is a model of health care that supports first-contact, accessible, continuous, comprehensive, and coordinated person-focused care. It aims to optimise population health and reduce disparities across the groups by ensuring equitable ...

, routine health care, usually the first provided a patient sees **

Primary healthcare Primary health care (PHC) is a whole-of-society approach to effectively organise and strengthen national health systems to bring services for health and wellbeing closer to communities. Primary health care enables health systems to support a p ...

, a series of principles geared towards making health care available *

Intensive care medicine Intensive care medicine, usually called critical care medicine, is a medical specialty that deals with seriously or critically ill patients who have, are at risk of, or are recovering from conditions that may be life-threatening. It includes p ...

, provision of life support or organ support systems in patients who are critically ill *

Managed care In the United States, managed care or managed healthcare is a group of activities intended to reduce the cost of providing health care and providing health insurance while improving the quality of that care. It has become the predominant system o ...

, a variety of techniques intended to reduce the cost of providing health benefits and improve the quality of care *

Palliative care Palliative care (from Latin root "to cloak") is an interdisciplinary medical care-giving approach aimed at optimizing quality of life and mitigating or reducing suffering among people with serious, complex, and often terminal illnesses. Man ...

Music

Care (band) Care were an English new wave band formed by Paul Simpson and Ian Broudie in 1983 in Liverpool, England. Care were created after the split of the Wild Swans when singer Paul Simpson (also ex-keyboardist for the Teardrop Explodes) came togeth ...

, a 1980s alternative rock band from Liverpool * ''Care'' (How to Dress Well album), 2016 * ''Care'' (Shriekback album), 1983 * "Care", a song by Beabadoobee from ''

Fake It Flowers ''Fake It Flowers'' is the debut studio album by Filipino-English singer and songwriter Beabadoobee. It was released under English independent label Dirty Hit on 16 October 2020. Continuing the departure from her previous lo-fi music, lo-fi bedr ...

'', 2020 * "Care", a song by Bury Tomorrow from ''

The Seventh Sun ''The Seventh Sun'' is the seventh studio album by British metalcore band Bury Tomorrow. The album was released on 31 March 2023 through Music for Nations and it was produced by Dan Weller. It is the first album to feature the band's new rhythm gu ...

'', 2023 * "Care", a song by Marillion from '' An Hour Before It's Dark'', 2022

Film and television

* ''Care'' (film), a 2000 British television crime drama film * "Care", a 2001 episode of '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' * "Care" (''Law & Order: UK''), the 2009 premiere episode of the British television series, ''Law & Order: UK'' * A 2018 BBC drama co-written by

Jimmy McGovern James Stanley McGovern (born September 1949) is an English screenwriter and producer. He is best known for creating the drama series '' Cracker'' (1993–1995), for which he received two Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America. He als ...

Other uses

Cahir Cahir (; ) is a town in County Tipperary in Ireland. It is also a civil parish in the barony of Iffa and Offa West. Location and access For much of the twentieth century, Cahir stood at an intersection of two busy national roadways: the Dubli ...

, a town in County Tipperary, Ireland (pronounced roughly 'care') * Career Average Revalued Earnings, another name for the

career average pension A career average pension or career average revalued earnings pension (CARE pension) is a type of occupational pension scheme, where people saving for retirement pay for a benefit after retirement where they will receive a sum that is calculated ...

model of occupational pension * Continuous time

Algebraic Riccati equation An algebraic Riccati equation is a type of nonlinear equation that arises in the context of infinite-horizon optimal control problems in continuous time or discrete time. A typical algebraic Riccati equation is similar to one of the following: t ...

, a matrix equation *

Community Activities Restrictions Enforcement The Community Activities Restrictions Enforcement or CARE (, commonly referred to as the PPKM) was a '' cordon sanitaire'' policy of the Indonesian government since early 2021 to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to the implementation of CA ...

, a ''cordon sanitaire'' policy implemented in Indonesia to combat the COVID-19 pandemic