Institutionalisation of the Elderly Person – Between Adaptation and Survival

AbstractWith age, elderly person experience new situations that require additional efforts to adapt. Many of them stem from diminishing individual autonomy of elderly and accompanying gradual increase social need or medical services. Of particular interest to humanize ever more intervention in social protection of older people is how the older person adapts to new situations, types of adjustment that is caused to human beings try, as far as exist separately, any age-specific coping strategie