[Problems of retirement and their mastering (author's transl)].

Based on four functions (assignment of status and role, making one's living, reasons for social contacts, and structure of time) the importance of work and profession in a society mainly orientated on performance are shown. From this we can conclude that with retirement from the profession a lability of the level of satisfaction can be found. Based on the analysis some measures are discussed which could assist to restabilisation by strengthening the individual competences for overcoming problems connected with loosing professional tasks.