[The social "losses" of aging in relation to the problem of decompensation-compensation and the prevention of mental disorders in old age].
320 aged patients with psychogenic onset of mental disorders were examined. The authors analysed the different social stress-factors which induced psychic decompensation. On the basis of these data the proposal is made concerning the changes of gerontopsychiatric, psychologic and social services in the direction of widening outpatient clinics (in the form of the special consulting rooms in the psychiatric and general polyclinics).