Objectives:

The nursing home care of the elderly is a reality in Spain. Many of them are accompanied by their children in this life experience, whom create their own opinion. Knowing the children opinion including a future perspective is the main purpose of the research, on the basis of their current opinion of caring.

Methods:

A qualitative survey is used, with in-depth interviews and content analysis. The sample was selected from two nursing homes in the city of Jaen.

Results:

The main outcome was than they are satisfied with this kind of caring but not for themselves.

Conclusions:

We conclude that elderly care needs moving to home and through care specialization.

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