This search includes a research with the third age (more than 60 years old), in 3 different acquaintance groups in Porto Alegre city, Rio Grande do Sul state, south of Brazil. The influence of the groupal relationships in the changes of the elders lives was observed, with the encrease of new relationships. These people seeked new stimuli in other to cape with distress caused bylonelyness, security pensions, windowhood and lhe loss of their children.
third age people; psychosocial changes
