Features of social and psychological adaptation of elderly people

Abstract. This article is devoted to a problem of social and psychological adaptation of elderly people. Adaptation in work is considered as ability of the personality to carry out the leading activity, to satisfy the main sotsiogenny requirements, to endure conditions of self-affirmation and free self-expression of creative abili-ties. Features of adaptation and disadaptation of elderly people, communication of adaptation with the leading spheres of life at this age are studied.