Activities in nursing homes: A descriptive study in Southern Austria

This study aimed at (1) assessing activities and services offered by nursing homes, (2) estimating the residents\u27 and the nurses\u27 contentedness about the residents’ activities, and (3) finding out the residents\u27 and nurses\u27 wishes for alterations in the home routine. Based on the information of 255 residents and 171 nurses in eleven Austrian nursing homes our results showed that there was a great discrepancy of the values between the residents\u27 and the nurses\u27 view of an active daily life in the institution. While residents expressed the wish for more activities in the nursing homes, nurses wanted a facilitation of their care work