Lindner O
Aktuelle Gerontol. 1978 Jul;8(7):379-85.
The problems of environment of elderly people are concentrated in social area and in the intimate living space, which can not be maintained sufficiently because of increasing age and decreasing performance. The consequences of mobility in industrial revolution scattered families and also deprived old men of their helpers. Inadequate living rooms and absence of technical comfort especially in the houses of the very aged men produce intense dependence of the own individual performance. Medical data of the spontaneous elected performance informe about the amount of the requirements of daily working capacity. They show low requirements of stress. Spontaneous working load was below of the level of medical well tolerated effort. In healthy men no signs of overloading have been registrated. Seldom removal in old age pensions before the age of eighty is indicated by illness but frequently social motivation predominates. On the contrary considerable insufficiency in social and medical providing exist after acut illness, what is to improve by special hospitals for rehabilitation of older people and by a grid of social stations. By this method it might be possible to save a great amount of money by governments that now has to be payed for exorbitant expansive assistance which is medical not indicated.
老年人的环境问题集中在社会领域和私密生活空间，由于年龄增长和身体机能下降，这些环境无法得到充分维护。工业革命带来的流动性问题使家庭分散，也剥夺了老年人的帮手。居住空间不足以及缺乏技术舒适性，尤其是在高龄老人的住所中，导致他们对自身个体能力产生强烈依赖。自发选择的活动表现的医学数据反映了日常工作能力的需求程度。这些数据显示压力需求较低。自发的工作负荷低于医学上可耐受的努力水平。在健康男性中未记录到过载迹象。八十岁之前很少因疾病而领取养老金，但社会动机往往占主导。相反，急性病后社会和医疗保障存在相当大的不足，这需要通过专门的老年康复医院和社会服务网络来改善。通过这种方式，政府有可能节省大量资金，这些资金目前用于支付过度昂贵且无医疗必要的援助。
