Old People Investigation (District Offenbach)

Topics: preferred leisure activities; boredom and loneliness; judgement on one´s own sociability; meeting place for social contacts; knowledge as well as judgement on old people´s clubs, old people´s day centers, meal service, sick care service, driving service, foot care service, advice and mediation services of the city; description of housing situation as well as furnishing of residence; year of construction of building; type of heating; judgement on residence as suitable for the old; interest in moving into a residence suitable for the old; necessary changes and possibilities of conversion of one´s own residence into a form suitable for the old; eating habits; family-internal division of carrying out necessary jobs in the household; attitude to and utilization of the household help service; judgement on personal condition of health; frequency and regularity of doctor contacts; presence of a caregiver in case of illness; further contact in case of illness; personal confinement to bed; willingness of relative to provide sick care; inclination to moving into a nursing home; self-assessment of probability of having to make use of a nursing home in the near future; biggest problems of older people; lack of public and infrastructure facilities in the residential area; reading of daily newspapers; self-assessment of lack of interest and reduction in social contacts; desire for more activity; change of interests in the course of life; local residency; relatives within the municipal area; amount of rent; number of children; place of residence of children and number of grandchildren; distance to closest relatives; memberships.

Demography: age; sex; school education; employment; characteristics of spouse. Interviewer rating: willingness of respondent to cooperate; judgement on physical and mental constitution of respondent. Also encoded were: age of interviewer; identification of interviewer.