2279|LONELINESS IN OLDER PEOPLE

— Marital status and situation of coexistence of the interviewee. If you are widowed: he’s been in this situation for years. — If you live alone: reason, years that he has lived alone and degree of satisfaction for living alone. — Number of children of the interviewee, sex and situation of coexistence/proximity with them. — State of health. Possession of diseases that require medical attention. Recent administration of medicines. — Frequently with which you have gone to the doctor in the last year. — Appliances (glasses, hearing aids, dentures, cane, walkers and wheelchair) that you usually use. — Obesity/thinness of the interviewee. — Consumption of alcoholic beverages in the last week. Habit of wine consumption. Perception of his current consumption of alcoholic beverages compared to his consumption when he was young. — Smoking habit, number of cigarettes you smoke a day. — Degree of satisfaction with their social relations. — Perception of your degree of loneliness. Ideas with which he defines ‘loneness’. Definition of ‘marriage solitude’. — Preparation and place where you usually eat at noon. People you eat with. — Self-sufficiency to perform various activities of daily life. — People or entities that give you the most help to carry out the activities with which you have difficulties. In the case of social services: institution that usually helps you and coverage regarding your needs. If not through social services: degree of sacrifice or effort for the person performing such help. — Opinion on what resource you would be forced to use in the event that you need help in the future to carry out your daily activities. Resource that you would most like to have in the future. — Often with whom you have been, during the last week, with people other than the people you live with. — Frequency with which, over the last year, you have seen and talked on the phone with: children living in different locations, children living in your locality but not with the interviewee, grandchildren, neighbors, friends, other family members and club or association partners. Degree of satisfaction with these relationships. — Situation or time of day in which you are most alone. Activity you do when you feel alone. — Person or entity that believes, would help you, in the event that you have health problems. Frequency of that help. — Types of associations of which the interviewee is a member. — Activities you did during the last week. — Knowledge and use of the various public services and social benefits for the elderly. — Birth in the municipality in which the interview is done. If you were born in another municipality: years that he has been residing and reason to come to his current municipality. — Years that he has been living in the neighborhood. — Frequency in which you feel insecure (citizen insecurity) in various situations. — Perception of the distance to which the nearest public health services are located. — Type of building where the interviewee resides: single-family house, building with elevator or building — Opinion on the influence that the type of house in which you reside can have on the degree of contact you have with other people. — Type of residence, permanent or temporary, in the house in which you are currently. If it is a temporary stay: people with whom he resides. — Perception of their current situation compared to what their parents had at their age. — Degree of satisfaction with your current overall situation. — Opinion on whether older people occupy their rightful position in society. — Opinion on the treatment given by society in general and young people in particular to people of their age. — Opinion on whether there should be more people of their age, such as representatives of the elderly, in different governing and legislative bodies and in the media. — Radio or television programs dedicated to the elderly who follow. — Opinion on society’s perception of older people. Traits by which the interviewee would characterise the elderly. Personal self-perception. — The most important thing for the interviewee: health, money, love or not feeling alone. — Situations that he fears the most will happen to him. — Frequency of attendance at religious offices.