Social External Relations among Residents of Nursing Homes 1988 B

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.