[Structure of supply--homes for the aged--as exemplified by a city (Nuremberg)].

Colloquies about the social-political instrument "old people's house" are not only matter of discussion for moral-theologicals, social-ethicals, gerontologists of different subjects, social-politicioner and practitioner of old people's work. Old people entering to an old people's house, are often involved with severe personal problems. Theoretical could the entrance be characterized as a break in biography.--Description and analyses of the structure of supply of the instrument "old people's house" as an example (here: city of Nuremberg) may help to clarify personal problems: aspects of the sociological point of view are "institutionalisation and comfort", of an economical point of view "prices for accommodation" and of an staff-economical point of view "the rate of care". The results shows among others, that there is a differentiation in the structure of supply.