Social External Relations among Residents of Nursing Homes 1988 A

Relations of nursing home residents with 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
into home; those providing help; initiator of application for
admission to the 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; someone 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 to children since
admission to home; doing laundry in home; friendships with other home
residents; adapting to the home; extent of remaining activities in
the home; attitude to the possibility of living with 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.