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Analyzing the situation of the elderly in today’s society it can be seen that flexible modernity as well as changes concerning conditions and lifestyles require from them reinterpretation of patterns of experiencing their old age. They are forced to work out by themselves their own and a more contemporary model of old age. The elderly have to take up a serious challenge that contemporary civilization puts out to them. The article which refers this problem tries to show the situation of the elderly in today’s society.