Old People Investigation (District Offenbach)

The life situation as well as interests and desires of older people in
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.