[Management of pre-retirement probands at the onset of retirement age--study exemplified by the Parchim district]. / Betreuung von Vorrentnern bei Eintritt in das Rentenalter--Untersuchung am Beispiel des Kreises Parchim.

Entering the age of retirement means a threshold situation affecting various relations in the living-conditions, medical provision not excluded. Based upon the WHO-authorizised concept of classification of impairments, disabilities and handicaps (ICIDH), disability status was checked up in 62 male and 113 female at the age of 65 respectively 60 years, the trial forming the respondents rate out of a population total of 179 persons reaching the age of retirement within a one year's space at a district town in the north part of GDR. Medical provision in this context was analysed.

[Classification and need for health care and health care performance--its significance for the development of health care profiles]. / Klassifikation von Betreuungsbedarf und Betreuungsleistungen--ihre Bedeutung für die Entwicklung von Betreuungsprofilen.

Reflecting on health-categorical characteristics of human old age the requirements concerning a classification on health-care needs and measures are stated. In this respect different definatory levels ought to be taken into consideration. Classifications so as currently used are not precise, and by this diminishing the effectiveness of needs-detection and care-delivery.

[Professional activity in retirement--a sociologic study of employment in agriculture and trade in the Schwerin district]. / Beitrag zur Frage der Berufstätigkeit im Rentenalter--eine soziologische Studie in Betrieben der Landwirtschaft und des Handels im Bezirk Schwerin.

Basic principles on employment at the age of retirement having been explained beforehand the results of interviews with 700 employers concerning motivation and conditions in relevance are recorded. The employment rate in the age-group under consideration is discussed as dependent on the historical level of the society, the conclusions aiming at goals to be fulfilled in enterprises as well as in the society as a whole.

[Organization of care for citizens of pension age through systematic evaluation]. / Zur Betreuungsorganisation für Bürger im Rentenalter unter evaluativem Aspekt.

The increase in the efficiency of the process of complex care can only be looked for in the field of the improvement of the dispensatory care for the population of pension age by the family doctor. At present this form of care develops already for the citizens of old age in many towns and villages, in particular by paying periodically home visits without having been called for especially. In continuation of the accompanying care from the health protection of children and adolescents via industrial health protection the dispensatory care for the population of pension age could be continued systematically if the citizens were subjected to a serial examination in the year of entering pension age, and if the dispensatory care by the family doctor were introduced on this basis according to a care programme. The development and testing of such a model is currently worked upon at the Institute of Social Hygienics of Karl-Marx University.

[Problems in the organization and evaluation of dispensary care for the population of citizens of retirement age in basic ambulatory care]. / Probleme der Gestaltung und Evaluation der Dispensairebetreuung für die Bevölkerungsgruppe Bürger im Rentenalter in der ambulanten Grundbetreuung.

The paper deals with the dispensary care concept aiming at people at the age of retirement as target-group. The author explains the concept on the base of epidemiological requirements and shows ways how it is to be fulfilled under metro conditions opposite non-metro. Stress is laid on evaluative research, being an instrument of bringing out organizational forms the most effectives. Guiding principles for the evaluation of process-development being proposed.

[Remarks on the problem of preparation for an active old age from the viewpoint of developing a comprehensive care system for citizens in the retirement age]. / Bemerkungen zum Problem der Vorbereitung auf ein aktives Alter aus der Sicht der Entwicklung der Betreuungsorganisation für die Bevölkerungsgruppe Bürger im Rentenalter.

The paper deals with the tasks of medical services in factories concerning the preparation of employees for active life-style in retirement age. It does so from the point of view of showing some problems related with the further development of the system of comprehensive care for the elderly as part of the socialist society. There are questions how to intensify the participation of various social forces and organize a better coordination in going together with the doctor. Special problems such as health-behaviour of old persons, housing-policy demands, tendencies in family-development and motivational factors, are noted and suggested to take them in account as more common facts of importance for preparing people for the age of retirement.

[Problems in the admission to in-hospital oral surgical care from the patient's viewpoint--results of patient interviews in the hospital for dental and maxillo-facial surgery of the Karl Marx University, Leipzig]. / Probleme der Aufnahme in stationäre kieferchirurgische Betreuung aus der Sicht des Patienten--Ergebnisse einer Patientenbefragung in der Klinik für Chirurgische Stomatologie und Kiefer-Gesichts-Chirurgie der Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig.

The author deals with the results from the interviewing of oral surgery patients on their problems concerning the sending and the admission to the hospital, with special attention to the problems of waiting for admission, the familiarization with the clinical environment and the improvement suggestions of the patients. The conclusions concern tasks arising from the medical and dental care for inpatients as well as for outpatients.