[Pensions for the aged or housebound: discriminant factors. Study conducted in 4 districts of the canton of Fribourg (Switzerland)].

This research forms part of a two centre study (Fribourg et Geneva) on the use of medical and socio-medical services by elderly persons. It was undertaken under the auspices of the national research programme No 8 (Efficiency and effectiveness of the Swiss health system). The study covered 1173 persons aged 65 years or over receiving care in three services (partly medicalized nursing homes, retirement homes and home nursing services) in four french speaking districts of Fribourg Canton.

[Towards the development of a global index of functional disability based on the O.E.C.D. questionnaire. Items in a Swiss survey (author's transl)].

This study is based on a sample of 1500 persons, representative of the general population aged 65 years and over in Geneva and the central Valais region. The questions used to evaluate the level of disability are those selected by the OECD working group. They were included in a self-administered questionnaire.

[Effects of handicap, depression and somatic disorders on the self assessment of health].

Persons over 65 years of age were questionned on their state of health, in Geneva and the central part of canton of Wallis. The self-assessment of the state of health is only partially accounted for by the functional disability.