[Psychosocial aspects of institutional dying in the elderly (author's transl)].

Especially in the elderly dying is less a somatic than a psychosocial act, which results from the relationship of institution, structur, professional staff, and patient. During the psychosocial dying occurs a continual death of identity, integrity, and relationship, which has the origin in station ideologies, insufficient training of the staff, psychiatric injudiciousness, and in the fail in death-contact. During a some years lasting research-work the different connections are inquired and the dangers of an over-subscribed theory of activity are represented.