This article is based on semistructured, open-ended interviews that explored the long-term care choices of 20 African-American elders—10 nursing home residents and 10 home care clients—in a midwestern metropolitan area. Informants' ability to consider a nursing home a “home” was related primarily to the criteria they used to define “home.” Other indicators included the circumstances of nursing home placement, previous experience with nursing homes, and the degree of continuity achieved after placement. Findings from this study suggest that a consideration of home and nursing home both as abstractions and as concrete places is useful in explaining differences in informants' ability to regard the nursing home as a home.
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- Aging and/or ADRD
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