[Between disregard and motivation: hospital personnel facing the challenge of the aging].

Although hospital is getting more rationalized and nursing tasks are very heavy and fatiguing, innovation appears in geriatric organization. That does not only correspond to technocratic or regular preoccupation but also to ethical one as a figure of human subject comes into sight. Innovation and ethical thought are elaborated in small groups of protected enclaves which progressively play a part in legitimation of therapeutic activity.