Outpatient geriatric care and support

Most older people want to live at home for as long as possible. This wish becomes a challenge when important activities of daily life can no longer be carried out independently. But what kind of care and support services do older people living at home actually use? And who provides these services? Are there gaps in care and how can these be closed? These are the central questions that this book deals with. The views of the elderly people concerned are consistently incorporated. From the evaluation of over 700 interviews with a wide range of information on the care situation, a representative and meaningful picture of care and assistance arrangements in German-speaking Switzerland emerges. The good quality of the nursing and care services and the maintenance of social contact.