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Home care nursing services come as a blessing in today's fast paced lives where everyone is running to fulfill the demands of work, home, children and take care of ailing or ageing family members. The homecare nursing attendants shows satisfactory psychometrical properties in a large sample of nursing home care nursing attendants. The rationale for its development was twofold. The homecare nursing attendants, first, provides information which gives direction to the design and development of a new curriculum for nursing with as goal bridging the gap between home care and institutional care. Second, it makes it possible to determine, across time, the success of the new curriculum. The main objective of this research paper is to measure the social and economical aspects of home care nursing attendants with reference to their perceptions. In this purpose Visakhapatnam selected as study area and 350 home care nursing attendants were considered as sample, and data was collected with the help of a research schedule. The analyses in this research paper indicate homecare nursing attendants is suitable for both of these purposes. As the workforce shortage in community nursing is a problem in many Western countries, the relevance of the content of the instrument is high. It is for this reason recommended for potential future use also in international contexts.