[Sports in old age - a contribution to the development of communicative abilities (author's transl)]

The intention of the present report is to show that particularly the negative self-assessment of older people produces disturbing developments even in their social relations. We proceed from the thesis that movement and game, i.e. the development of motor abilities forms the basis of the whole system of man. For this reason a socio-political education of the aged should include sports since it offers opportunities for developing a subjective and social awareness; in this context didactic-methodological approaches are developed.