Development and prospects of people's care in the social homes.

The article analyses one of the specialized activities of nurses - the care for mentally handicapped people in Holland and Bulgaria. The attention is focused on its deficiency in the social homes, substantiating the necessity of the nursing specialization which seems unfamiliar to us and at the same time already well-established in Europe - the social nurse. The major aims of the Bulgarian-Dutch project in this direction have been defined; coordinator from Bulgarian side is the Medical College in Vratsa.