The overall purpose of the essay is to, based on an anthology book with acollection of texts, reproduce voices from elderly care by describing carerelationships and what significance they can have for care recipients, care staffand the quality of the work. A second purpose of the thesis is to describe howworking conditions can affect the quality of the care relationship and the carework. When my idea was to write about care relationships and working conditionsin elderly care, I chose to start from some form of reality-based book with storiesbased on care staff and / or care recipients. The choice of empirical data landed inan anthology book consisting of thirty-five reality-based stories of experiencesand concrete knowledge about elderly care. The stories constitute the authors' ownperspectives and experience of elderly care. The stories reflect both urban andrural areas, as well as positive and negative experiences. The authors of theanthology are as numerous as the stories and consist of relatives who tell abouttheir mothers, thus mostly daughters, assistant nurses, care staff, who tell abouttheir work either in home care or in nursing homes. The theoretical frames ofreference I have used to gain an understanding of my results are relational theory,coping and Maslow's description of a pathogenic approach. As an analysismethod, I chose to use a thematic analysis. The method takes into account partly avisible content but also an implicit content, which I thought was appropriate basedon my empirical data. The results and analysis part show that the importance ofthe care relationship between staff and care recipients is a fundamental factor forgood quality care. The care staff strives to create good and meaningful carerelationships with the care recipients, which generates a good quality of care.Furthermore, it appears that the working conditions with its control instrumentsthat are implemented affect the quality of care and generate an inadequacy of thecare staff.