Results: All informants viewed their lives in retrospective with
positive feelings with respect to their childhood and youth. As
grown up individuals, they saw family, friends and social relations
as very important. No particular differences between the informants
from the different municipalities were found, nor in relation to age,
sex or profession. There were opportunities, expectations, wishes,
concerns and worries related to the transition into old age pensioner
life among the informants from both the rural and urban
municipalities.