A significant number of older people believe that due to advanced age, illness, physical and mental difficulties and lack of occupation, it is most appropriate to choose institutional care, such as accommodation in a nursing home, which service is to care for and meet the most primary life needs and is a key provider of long-term care services. Designing and implementing productive leisure-time activities for users of nursing homes is an important aspect of social work that needs to be continuously developed because their competencies can be of significant importance for the quality of services provided in nursing homes. Diploma thesis investigates and describes the leisure-time activities of the users of the nursing home Beli Manastir with the aim of identifying ways of developing social work in that area. Diploma thesis presents theories related to the research topic, such as theories of aging – theory of exclusion, theory of continuity and theory of activity, theory of empowerment and theory of social capital. The concepts of long-term care, nursing homes, the role of social work in nursing homes, as well as the description of the nursing home for older people Beli Manastir are described, along with the characteristics of the town of Beli Manastir, where the nursing home is located. The director, experts and users of the nursing home Beli Manastir participated in the qualitative research. The research showed that the users of the nursing home primarily need more intensive contact with social workers, which could be deepened by involving them in designing and implementing the leisure-activities of the users of the nursing home. The field of leisure-activities of the users of the nursing home as an area of social work can be developed by deepening the relationship with the user, whose needs, wishes, thoughts and feelings are continuously observed and acted upon; assuming the role of the primary organizer and coordinator of the leisure-activities of the users of the nursing home; by applying an active and proactive approach in designing and implementing their leisure-time activities in cooperation with the occupational therapist; establishing cooperation with different sections of society, that is, using available resources within the community for the purpose of realizing organized activities.