Abstract
This study was designed to investigate how nursing home residents escalate their dissatisfaction and uneasiness in the
nursing home life. The data on 26 residents were analyzed according to Modified Grounded Theory Approach by a
clinical psychologist of the nursing home. The analysis revealed the following: The residents can live stable lives
with 'Individual life-routine' while forming relations with the home; changes in 'Individual life-routine' and relations
with the home due to various causes lead the residents to reconstruct them with the help of the staff; and care
interaction occasionally results in a vicious circle of staff-oriented care, residents' hesitation in requesting care, and
narrow care relations. In this circle reconstruction of the 'Individual life-routine' is increasingly difficult, resulting in
escalation of the residents' dissatisfaction and uneasiness in the nursing home life. The staff should be sensitive to
changes in residents, 'Individual life-routine' and adapt care interaction to their needs.
