摘要：Old age is a period when the social environment of the elderly person shrinks due to reasons such as loss of social role,health, decline of income and empty nest situation.This research was carried out in order to determine, how elderly peopleuse the social relationship networks and communication with their environment, to satisfy the needs for establishingrelationships with other people, acceptance and belonging.In this study, interview technique was used as qualitative datacollection method and four female and six male participants aged 65 and over were interviewed.Questions aboutsocioeconomic and demographic characteristics, daily life activities and obstacles, social acquaintances, what kind of peoplethey wanted to socialise with or not, their preferences in communication content, who they had been in conflict with in andwhy, were asked to participants.Among the daily activities, worshiping, listening to radio and watching television were donewithout gender difference, and it was found that not being able to visit neighbours was in the first place among theactivities that could not be done, but this was also prevented by their spouse, the daughter-in-law or the children.Theirchildren and grandchildren were their main social acquaintances, and these were followed by relatives.They were mainlytalking about the current events and politics.They preferred to talk to people with similar personality traits and peoplewhom were generally acceptable to society.They, mainly, had conflicts with their daughters, spouse, daughter in-laws andsiblings about not doing what they wanted or being obstructed about the things they wanted to do and have financial issues.Participants who had lost their spouse and participants who lost their peers felt loneliness and felt sad for being lonely.Theparticipants felt health was the bad aspect of being old; and being able to worship as they wanted to and getting respectwere good aspects of being old.The worry about the future was determined to be individual in some participants andgeneral in others.
关键词：Social relations in old age; communication conflicts in old age; communication content in old age.
