[Significance of the "life satisfaction" concept for gerontology].

Issuing from perceptions of the occupational psychology and -sociology about the ambiguity of the category "satisfaction" the author derives the demand for more subtle recording of "satisfactions". The ideological background of growth in importance of the category of "satisfaction" in the bourgeois social gerontology research is referred to the same way as the statement that "satisfaction" no is an absolute (primary) goal of gerontological efforts.