Life crisis of seniors

This thesis is composed of both theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part of thesis is dedicated to life crises of seniors. It explains crisis itself and lists typologies of crises.It analyses crisis situasions, their causes and development. It also describes options of crisis intervention as possible help for a person in crisis. It dedicates to old age and ageing. It describes features of ageing, needs of senior, services for seniors and notes possible crises of seniors. The practical part is formed by qualitative research. Method of dialogue have been used in order to get information needed. The main aim of the thesis was to find out which life crises seniors see as most difficult and how they solved them. An intermediate aim was to find out whether moving to the home for the elderly is also seen as a life crisis or not. The research was done in Domov pro seniory Bechyně