The Situation of Retired Parents in Agricultural Households

The situation of agricultural households with persons in need of care
or older persons.

Topics: number of persons in need of care; housing these persons;
reason for stationary stay; judgement on health care; designation of
shortages; degree of relationship to person in need of care; type and
length of disability; time expended and persons involved in the care
for those in need of help; difficulties in the agricultural company
caused by care for those in need of help such as in housekeeping;
restriction of employment due to this care; utilization of external
help (company help, neighbors etc.) in connection with care of
handicapped; utilization of nursing specialists and bearer of the costs
of these measure; rebuilding undertaken for the maintenance of the
person in need of care; sanitary facilities of the living area of the
person in need of care; costs and financial aid for the rebuilding;
acquisition of special equipment; judgement on the residence as
suitable for handicapped; attitude to placing of handicapped in a home;
changes in relationship with the person in need of care in the course
of care; receipt of care benefit; judgement on contact with the social
services office; judgement on provision of health and social care in
the region; preferred group of persons to care for the person in need
of care; money available monthly for the person in need of care;
knowledge of honorary caregivers in the nearer vicinity; degree of
organization of neighborhood help in the village; housing situation of
parents retired from farming and jobs they took care of in the company;
type of inter-generation conflicts; most important prerequisite for the
two generations to live peacefully together; preferred type of living
together; type of training in care of those in need of care; company
size; number of employees in the workforce; district code;
identification of interviewer.

The following questions were posed with handicapped children or
children in need of care: type of support measures conducted for the
child; accomodation possibilities currently used and planned for
emergencies.

Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; school education;
occupational training; participation in agricultural company; size of
agriculturally productive land; company primary or secondary
occupation; position in agricultural company; activities outside of
agriculture.