Content and format specification

Wording and translation

🏡 Care Facilities

For French care facilities, this website uses the following English translations.

French name	Translation	French full form
EHPAD	EPHAD	établissement d'hébergement pour personnes âgées dépendantes
EMS	EMS	établissement médico-social
USLD	long-term care unit	unité de soins de longue durée

EHPAD and EMS literally mean accommodation establishment for dependent elderly people and medico-social establishment, and can both correspond to nursing home, retirement home or old people's home in English. This website decided to keep the French names for these two terms.

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Formatting

📆 Date

This website uses day-month-year order for dates (except for dates in image file names, which use the YYYY-MM-DD format).

For example: 31/12/2020, 31/12, 31 December

🔣 Punctuation

English sentences follow English punctuation rules. French sentences follow French punctuation rules.

For example: In French, a space is needed

• before question marks and exclamation marks
• before and after colons and semicolons

0️⃣ Numbers

For ease of reading, the whole part of a number is separated by a comma for every three digits (called a thousands separator). Of course, some figures, such as years, will remain pure numbers without any thousands separator.

Notice that in French, a comma is used in place of a decimal point, and a space or period is used as the thousands separator.

For example: 1,234,567.89 (and 1 234 567,89 or 1.234.567,89 in French).

🧩 Miscellaneous

When using the per cent sign %, the number immediately precedes the symbol without a space (for example: 10%).

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