[On the social situation of sick old women (author's transl)].

By explaining the social situation of the patients in a Berlin hospital for chronic and geriatric diseases, it is demonstrated that financial security and social status of old woman patients are much worse than those of old men. Examples are mentioned to demonstrate which were--and still are--the main causes--that in their earlier years women were paid less for their work and were discriminated because of their sex. If for the future the situation of old women is to be improved, the emancipation of women must advance today.