Table 1 Eligibility criteria

Population

(1) Older individuals (aged 65 or older) who are in need of nursing care and were admitted to nursing homes

(2) Health professionals/ health providers or informal caregivers (families/friends, paid/unpaid) who were involved in the admission to the nursing home

Concept

Challenges and care strategies (e.g., interventions, best-practice examples, recommendations) of admissions to nursing homes

Context

(1) Admissions to nursing homes in Germany (this setting includes discharging settings, e.g., acute care hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, and other nursing homes as discharging institutions)

(2) Publication languages: German, English

(3) Publication date: since 1995 (introduction of the Social Security Code XI (SGB XI), the German long-term care insurance)

(4) Types of evidence sources: all study types with an IMRaD structure (Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusions) including (i) peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings, (ii) grey literature such as preprints and reports from official agencies/policy documents, and doctoral theses

Excluded evidence sources: (i) Poster and only-abstract publications; (ii) articles dealing with mixed populations including younger adults