title: [Social factors in gerontology].
abstract: As an inter-branch research and working field of modern medicine, gerontology has to satisfy health-political requirements to a growing extent. Related to the specific subject of the investigation of aging and its biosocial character, this requires a view of human aging and being old that exceeds the limits of the medico-naturalscintific conceptions. Any analysis of phenomena of aging in later periods of life has to deal with the individual and his/her social environment-two interacting and dynamically changing parts of a global system. Associated therewith is the previously insufficiently solved problem of the clear determination of the "social", of the "social factors". Following already existing approaches, a possible systematization of the conglomerate of social factors is introduced and consequences concerning research and practice are pointed out.
authors.affiliation: Rat des Bezirkes, Abteilung Gesundheits- und Sozialwesen, Magdeburg, DDR.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Paul
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bansemir
authors.forename: K D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Kühne
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012931:Social Environment
vernacular_title: Soziale Faktoren in der Gerontologie.