title: [Status and ideas of medical sociology research on the formation of relations of elderly citizens to their family members].
abstract: With regard to the requirements of further medico-sociological research-work on the character of the relationship between elderly persons and their relatives--that is projected to be carried out by international scientific cooperation--the authors define positions concerning function and structure of the family under conditions of the socialist society. They identify several phases following each other, thus realizing the familial cyclus, the family members' respective positions being found appropriately modified or changed. Accordingly interactions-patterns, relationship between the older and younger generations being involved, contain different problems of importance for relevant investigations.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged / Q000523:psychology*; D005190:Family; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012106:Research; D012944:Social Support; D012962:Sociology, Medical
vernacular_title: Stand und Vorstellungen medizinsoziologischer Forschung zur Gestaltung der Beziehungen älterer Bürger zu ihren Familienangehörigen.