Materials and Method: A qualitative research was conducted to understand nursing home residents' thoughts about privacy of the elderly, and to determine the components of privacy. It comprises all nursing homes in Antalya. Seventeen different elderly persons were chosen from those nursing homes according to the research criteria; and they were interviewed deeply. All interviews were evaluated with a content analysis and a descriptive analysis.
Results: The results of the study show that generally information confidentiality was not considered as a component of privacy; on the contrary, privacy was mostly associated with religious and sexual confidentiality.
Conclusion: In the literature, information confidentiality is found as an important component of privacy. In the light of the research results and the literature review, we conclude that the ethical sensitivity of a society should be increased for acceptance of information confidentiality as a component of privacy.
Keywords : Privacy; Confidentiality; Personal Autonomy; Aging; Nursing Homes