Old age and the role of housing equity

The paper focuses on the planning and preparing for the retirement and old age by the Finnish home owning households. The authors ask what are the households\u27 norms, beliefs and behaviour regarding pension security and care in the old age. The article is based on the qualitative interviews conducted as a part of the collaborative project Demographic Change and Housing Wealth (DEMHOW) funded by the European Commission. A sample of 30 households representing young (25-35 years), middle-aged (45-55 years) and elderly (65-75 years) home-owners in the city of Turku was interviewed during a period from June to September in 2009.Članek obravnava, kako finska gospodinjstva v lastniških stanovanjih načrtujejo in se pripravljajo na starost in upokojitev. Avtorja ugotavljata, kakšne so norme, prepričanja in vedenje gospodinjstev glede pokojninskega varstva in oskrbe v starosti. Članek temelji na kvalitativnih intervjujih, opravljenih v okviru skupnega projekta "Demografske spremembe in stanovanjsko premoženje" (DEMHOW), ki ga je financirala Evropska komisija. V obdobju med junijem in septembrom 2009 so bili v mestu Turku opravljeni razgovori s člani 30 gospodinjstev oz. lastniki stanovanj treh starostnih skupin: 25-35 let, 45-55 let in 65-75 let