Family, ageing and disability in Spain

During the year 2003, the Demographic Studies Center was in charge of the general report of the Survey about Discapacities, Deficiencies and the State of Health, 1999. This report, elaborated with the expert collaboration of the Research Group on Ageing (CSIC), was published in 2005. Although disability logically is its primary target, the source is clearly designed to sound out the existing relation between those who suffer these problems and their immediate family environment. This potential has been tried to exploit thematically here. In the present article some of the results obtained in the report are exposed, thematically formulated around these two areas: age and the immediate co-habitational environment.