In order to gain deeper understanding of the patient's everyday life participant and non-participant observations were performed at a groupdwellingforAlzheimerpatients, during one year and eight months. The patients' talking and acting in various situations were noted, and the contexts were described. The phenomena, "longing for home," "on their way home " and "being at home " were identified and regarded as expressions of the experience ofhomesickness and athomeness in the patients.Karin Zingmark, RN, is a Doctoral Student