Professional and social adaptation in old age

The article examines the experience of old people education in the Krasnodar region. Education of old people needs in the legal, methodological, social and psychological support. Professional and social adaptation during adulthood is a very important period for old people. Training of personality with special educational needs in the context of personality development is seen as a stage of adaptation, adaptation to the activity, finding ways to realize the potential abilities for pensioners in life. As a fact, people of creative labour, interacting with the macro-economic environment, such as, policy, social and educational activities, is more resistant to growing old.