[Psycho-social problems in rehabilitation (author's transl)].

This contribution contains the results of a study on rehabilitation of patients undergoing treatment in the Alpen-Sanatorium in Bad Tölz, Germany, which was planned as a prestudy for an extensive examination of psycho-social problems of this group of patients and their chances for rehabilitation. The especially important age-group of those between 50- and 60-years-old for a successful geroprophylaxis was chosen. In this essay the connections between graded seriousness of the illness and the social classes of the patients as well as the following problems: difficulties, situated in the personality, general satisfaction with place in life, real worries, disturbances in childhood and youth, and decisive turning points in life, are worked out.