To study the state of health, way of life, sociopsychological adaptation, "stress-age-syndrome" development, significant social situations, formation of loneliness and types of frustrational responses, self attitude, states of disadaptation, interpersonal relationship peculiarities of the elder age people, there was generated and carried out a research program.

The scientific novelty of the conducted research is that for the first time there was fulfilled a complex approach to study social and sociopsychological adaptation of the elderly and senile age social groups representatives on the basis of a sociological, psychological, and biological research. New data were obtained to characterize the dynamics of the "stress-age-syndrome" development and the displays of psychological peculiarities according to age. The sex differentiation of the sociopsychological adaptation processes was shown.