The purpose of this research project is to develop concepts for doing cost-benefit analyses for governmental and nonprofit homes. Such concepts should facilitate a differential diagnosis which recognizes the wide individual differences among those served. Developing relevant concepts is a first step in measurement. An aim is to develop appropriate concepts and instruments that will make an ordinal measurement of resident satisfaction possible. This study makes no effort to develop monetary measures of either costs or benefits. These measures and the related cost-benefit analyses must await further developments. Of the home's employees, the nurses and nurses' assistants usually have the most prolonged and intimate contact with the residents. The nurses and nurses' assistants often are the home personified in that they provide the bulk of a home's services to the less able residents. This explains why the environment of the home, which includes the values, needs, and attitudes of nurses and nurses' assistants, is believed to influence resident satisfaction.

This diplomawork "The consequences of the institutionalization of the senior in residential facility" is based on a comarationof a researchamong two senior groups - living in his or her own homeenvironmentor in residentialinstitutional facility. The theoretic part consists of fore chapters: Ageing, Health as a Value, A Work with Seniors in Different Environment, The Impact of institutionalization on Seniors. A literary analysis of studied scholarly literature is based on the diploma work task, taking the practical needs into its account. The main general goal of a research part is to evaluate a perception of ageing. The main general goal of the research part is to survey the perception of ageing, risks and limitations related to overcome from home to institution percieved by seniors coupled with possible pros and cons. I used a questionnaire for my research. During the data acqusition I was influenced by my long practise with seniors in residential facility and my personal interest in the issue of fundamental change in senior's life.