Schubert H J
Institut für Entwicklungsplanung und Strukturforschung, Universität Hannover.
Z Gerontol. 1987 Sep-Oct;20(5):292-9.
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.
