title: [Principle of active social adjustment--the foundation of effective geriatric health].
abstract: The mastering of age by the individual requires a principal position of the society for measures of social gerohygiene. This position may only be the image of an integrated older citizen who--by active social adaptation--finds to a new quality of the compliance with his fundamental social requirements. In this case the continuity of the style of life is closely connected with the mastering of the objectively changing situations of life.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D006803:Human Development; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D012380:Role; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012931:Social Environment; D012938:Social Perception
vernacular_title: Das Prinzip der aktiven sozialen Adaptation--Grundlage effektiver Gerohygiene.