[Problems of aged people in rural regions of the Swiss Canton St. Gall (author's transl)].
Based on the structure of the mountain population, the living conditions of the aged (in rural communities 11-17% are older than 65) are shown. By public planning and cooperation of private organizations a material security of the aged has been strived after and mostly reached in the last 15 years--with the tendency to leave the aged in his own house or at least in the environment of his native village. Homes for the aged were built--if possible in every community--on the basis of 50 beds in a home for the aged and 35 beds in a nursing home for 10.000 inhabitants (83% in nursing homes an 17% in acute hospitals with geriatric departments). The individual help for the aged: activation by offering common institutions, ingenious activity, non-public advice offices, household help is deduced and the planning for the coming decade mentionned.
D000368:Aged; D003153:Community Health Services; D003710:Demography; D005260:Female; D006275:Health Facility Planning; D006707:Homes for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012424:Rural Population; D012939:Social Planning; D012940:Social Problems; D013557:Switzerland
Altersprobleme in Landgebieten des Kantons St. Gallen