In this study a representative sample of German acute care hospitals is used to describe the effects of dementia within acute care hospitals. Data from hospital patients above age 60 with the diagnosis dementia (ICD 290, 293, 294 and 310), collected over an observation period of 12 years, are compared with nondemented hospital patients at the same ages. The differences in the average length of stay between demented and nondemented patients are only relatively small in German acute care hospitals. The degree of multimorbidity is higher and hospital infections are more frequent for demented patients. The main differences occur with mortality: demented inpatients of both sexes experience a hospital mortality which is about twice as high as for nondemented patients at the same ages.

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Empirical data on persons of German ethnic origin migrating to Germany from the former Soviet Union are used to calculate their relative fertility levels before and after arriving in their new host country. Despite small numbers in the survey, a suitable method was used to effectively compare fertility before and after crossing the border with an index measure of national fertility rates. A relatively strong fertility decline was observed for German origin migrants (Aussiedler) from the former Soviet Union during their first years in Germany.More interesting, we consider, is how and to what extent the change in living conditions affected reproductive behaviour after arrival in Germany.

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