The nursing homes (as opposed to service homes) in Sweden are generally a "last resort", for elderly that are incapable.of taking care of themselves. Very fragile elderly with varying degree of confusion and dementia. For a Swedish nursing home the life expectancy after admission is something like 400 days.

The nursing homes has failed miserably at protecting their inhabitants in and around Stockholm. The debate about lacking funding and poor quality care has been going on for the past 2 decades. The recent stories has been about people walking from sick to healthy patients/inhabitants (I don't know the correct English term, sorry) without proper disinfection and sanitation, even though supplies have been available.