[Professional activity of people at an advanced age and of old people (author's transl)]

Professional activity and work at an advanced age take place under certain demographic and socia-conditions and increasingly in close connection with scientific-technological progress and the structural changes involved. For working people who are advanced in years it is incomparably more difficult to adjust themselves to changed working conditions and to changed job requirements and task than it is for their younger colleagues. Since it is left to these people to adjust themselves spontaneously to such developments, it is in many spheres of professional activity no longer possible to realize the necessary measure of adjustment to the conditions in the enterprise and, consequently, to job satisfaction with respect to the individual. This situation finds its expression in the fact that such working people are forced out of commercial activity, at the latest upon reaching the retirement age. A possibility of counteracting such consequences consists in the systematic and faresighted or prospective and preventive definition of job assignments and job layout while allowing for the concrete disposition of working people at an advanced age.