After Hospital: Should Older Care-Needing Patients Be Transferred to Their Homes or to an Intermediate Care Institution?

This research indicates conflicting priorities between the bureaucracy and nurses involved in actual work with older patients. From the nurses' perspective, the municipalities' administration was offering too few older patients short-term-stay in an intermediate care institution as part of the clinical pathway from hospital to home. However, providing more recourses to home nursing would improve their ability to provide sufficient care to older patients discharged from hospital.