[Housing for the elderly--results of an empirical study]

This empirical study is based on 285 standardized interviews with older people living in government-subsidized housing (sozialer Wohnungsbau). Housing conditions, especially contentment and perceived deficiencies are described. Additional remarks refer to the neighborhood relations. The high contentment, already known from former studies, is confirmed by the results. The findings indicate that steps towards an adaptation of housing conditions to possible needs of older people are not ranked very high. Beyond that, there seems to be a lack of information about the technical possibilities of improving the housing conditions, although older people want to live as long as possible in their current housing.