Extensive attention is also devoted to the scale and consequences of psychiatric disorders such as depression and dementia.
Social participation is also an important aspect.
Finally attention is paid to the elderly among minority groups. Their housing situation, health and uptake of care are compared with that of indigenous elderly people. Rapportage ouderen 1998 is the fourth in the series of reports on the elderly produced by the Social and Cultural Planning Office at the request of the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport.