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The help of family members, partly supported by nursing services, allows many of those in need of nursing care to remain in their usual living environment. Still one can assume that this has serious effects on the quality of life of those affected, who in varying degrees are dependent on the help of others. With the aid of longitudinal analyses, the issue of what changes in general life satisfaction go hand in hand with the occurrence of the need for assistance and care will be examined.
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Weick, S. (2012). The Incidence of the Need for Personal Assistance and Care: Objective Living Conditions and Subjective Assessments. In: Salzborn, S., Davidov, E., Reinecke, J. (eds) Methods, Theories, and Empirical Applications in the Social Sciences. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-18898-0_40
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