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The old people’s home has a social role in our society since it essentially deals with those categories of the population which are less wealthy, physically or mentally handicapped and insufficiently looked after at home. Within the category of the population recorded as elderly, the residents in homes occupy a special place. In many respects their situation differs from those who do not stay in institutions. This paper is therefore focused on some relevant aspects of the problems of residents in old people’s homes. The data and findings apply to the Belgian province of Limburg, which was chosen as a research field, but they may serve as a starting point for a more general approach of the problems. It can be said from the start only a minority of elderly people in Belgium live in a residence. Only 55,000, i. e. under 4% of all elderly, are concerned here. The proportion is rather low as compared with Holland, where no less than 11% of the elderly are staying in an institution or a treatment home.
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Dooghe, G. (1976). Characteristics and social conditions of residents in old people’s homes. In: Moors, H.G., Cliquet, R.L., Dooghe, G., van de Kaa, D.J. (eds) Population and Family in the Low Countries. Publications of the Netherlands Interuniversity Demographic Institute (N.I.D.I.) and the Population and Family Study Centre (C.B.G.S.), vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4387-5_10
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