"Hellre vara smutsig en dag extra än att inte komma ut"
En kvalitativ studie om fyrtiotalisters sociala behov
People born 1940-1949 will be more demanding regarding help from the elder care than previous generations. The explanation often proposed is that people born in the 1940?s grew up after the Second World War when cultural changes took place in society. The aim of this qualitative study was to describe the social needs of people born in the 1940?s today, in order to make cautious assumptions about what type of social needs elder care is likely to face in the future, when the older people becomes in need of elder care. A hermeneutic interpretation was made of the interviews with four older people born in the 1940?s who are not in need of elder care at the moment, and one social care assistant. The results showed that people born in the 1940?s want to maintain their current interests and activities in the future. Demands from the 1940?s generation concerning request for help from elder care, will according to this study and previous research, increase, especially concerning social needs and relationships. The conclusion is that the 1940?s generation will have bigger demands on getting various social needs satisfied, but how those needs will be met by the elder care, is still an open question for the future.