[Problems of aged people in rural regions of the Swiss Canton St. Gall (author's transl)].

Based on the structure of the mountain population, the living conditions of the aged (in rural communities 11-17% are older than 65) are shown. By public planning and cooperation of private organizations a material security of the aged has been strived after and mostly reached in the last 15 years--with the tendency to leave the aged in his own house or at least in the environment of his native village. Homes for the aged were built--if possible in every community--on the basis of 50 beds in a home for the aged and 35 beds in a nursing home for 10.000 inhabitants (83% in nursing homes an 17% in acute hospitals with geriatric departments). The individual help for the aged: activation by offering common institutions, ingenious activity, non-public advice offices, household help is deduced and the planning for the coming decade mentionned.