Study title

Relations of nursing home residents to their relatives, reasons for home stay, need of help, assessments by care personnel. Topics: Occupation characteristics; management activity; length of home stay; residence partner before admission to home; number of children; reasons for home stay; need of help at time of admission to home; person providing help; initiator of application for admission to home; most frequent contact person; distance to place of residence of this contact person; possession of a car and degree of employment of contact person; those in need of nursing care or small child in their household; visit by other children; frequency of visits; further contacts with family; desire for other contacts; person to talk to with problems, a desire for something special and sorrow; change of relationship with children since admission to home; doing laundry in home; friendships with other home residents; adjusting to the home; extent of remaining activities in the home; stand on possibility to live with his children; personal questionnaire: type of home; contacts of home resident with his family; most frequent visitor; certain days without visitors; visit days; assessment of care by family.