The Situation of Retired Parents in Agricultural Households

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.