[Description of selected aspects of health services for elderly citizens by social services in Saxony].

The following analysis describes selected aspects of Saxonian social and medical care for people in need of help and elderly, via "community social service units". Almost 16% of people are older than 65 years in Saxonia, whereas the number of women is twice the number of men. To secure the social and medical care "community social service units" were founded partly from former municipal nursing stations of the former GDR and partly from newly founded institutions. Basic and medical care is an essential part of the supply in "community social service units". To approximate an all-embracing social and medical care, so-called "other tasks" complete the general service from a qualitative point of view.