Nursing Care Cultural Orientations

1. Social network, readiness for nursing care and
assessment of the social situation of older people in a small town.
Topics:
1. Information on relatives:
living parents or parents-in-law;
age of parents or parents-in-law;
need of care of relatives and utilization of the nursing care insurance;
participation in providing nursing care;
marital status;
steady partner and living together with him;
number and information on persons in household (age, sex, relationship);
number, age, sex and distance of one's children outside of household.
2. Readiness for nursing care:
attitude to the right of parents to
the takeover of domestic nursing care by their children;
willingness to care for someone close to the respondent (scale);
thinking about personal need of care and assessment of the probability that
the respondent himself or his partner will be in need of care;
precautions taken for such a case;
preferred as well as probable aid in case of need of nursing care;
attitude to obligation of relatives or the government
to take on nursing care tasks (scale);
judgement on the advantageousness of the new nursing care insurance
for relatives providing nursing care (scale).
3. Assessment of the social situation:
postmaterialism;
assessment of the certainty of one's own provision for old age;
preference for reduction, extension or for no change in social services;
attitude to employment of mothers and women (role orientation scale);
moral orientations;
future pessimism;
dissatisfaction with politicians.
Demography:
school degree;
educational level;
employment;
occupation;
last year of employment;
last occupational position;
unemployment during the last 10 years and length of unemployment;
residential status;
length of living in current residence and in Munderkingen;
age;
net household income;
religious affiliation;
frequency of church attendance;
sex.
Also encoded was:
residential surroundings;
type and location of residence;
begin of interview,
length of interview.