Senior's Adaptation to Staying Facilities

The theoretical part consists of five chapters, which are engaged first of all in problems affecting elderly people. The first part is completed with the issue of the demographic development of the current society and of age lengthening. Methods of senior care in the past are also mentioned in this work. The present circumstances are presented by kinds of stay facilities. This is completed with a discussion concerning the care in staying facilities. Furthermore, the issue of adaptation and maladaptation is analyzed in detail. Concrete feasible solutions of managing the adaptation of elderly people at accommodation facilities are described, which is considered to be the most important part of this work. The author keeps to the hypotheses that previous knowledge of the environment and satisfied living at old people´s homes are connected with a successful adaptation to these facilities. Also free choice as well as self-determination favours the adaptation