[Role of the social support network in caring for the aged].
This study presents the results of an investigation of the reasons for the elderly people being cared for as residents of nursing homes or as outpatients. With regard to the reasons for being outpatients or being residents of nursing homes it can be pointed out: elderly people as outpatients can only be cared for as long as there are intact social relations. If services for outpatients are not supplemented by social relations the stay in a nursing home cannot be avoided.
Institut für Entwicklungsplanung und Strukturforschung, Universität Hannover.
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Schubert
D000368:Aged; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005190:Family; D006701:Home Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D006707:Homes for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D009735:Nursing Homes; D012931:Social Environment; D012944:Social Support
Zur Rolle der sozialen Beziehungsnetze in der Altenpflege.