Retirement as a significant turning point in human life

This work deals with retirement as an important change in human life. Theoretical part characterizes concepts of aging and age, and also the society{\crq}s perception of the elderly. The central part of the theoretical work deals with pensions, people{\crq}s leave to retirement, the pension insurance and the types of retirement pensions and conditions for entitlement to retirement pension. The practical part includes qualitative research, which explores with what expectations people enter into retirement and whether these expectations were fulfilled or not. The research was divided into three sets of issues: retirement, expectations and life in retirement. The aim was to determine whether people's expectations before retirement and then during retiremen were met