Consider a selfadjoint unbounded operator D on a Hilbert space H and a one parameter norm continuous family of selfadjoint bounded operators {A(t) | t ∈ R} that converges in norm to asymptotes A± at ±∞. Then under certain conditions [RoSa95] that include the assumption that the operators {D(t) = D + A(t), t ∈ R} all have discrete spectrum then the spectral flow along the path {D(t)} can be show...