Abstract
The purpose of this study is to approach to "Aging" of aged people through what they narrate about it themselves, and to show the issues about care and support for the aged. I conducted semi-structured interviews about "aging" with 10 female residents in a home for the elderly, and analyzed the interview data. The interviews showed that these inhabitants accept their "aging" as a natural process of life with various feelings. They feel their physical and mental decline, and have the anxiety and the conflict which arise from it. They feel happy and relieved in homes for the elderly in spite of the difficulty about the human relations ; moreover they make efforts to spend their time more happily and healthfully. Therefore, some conclusions on the structure of "aging" of female residents in homes for elderly, could be clarified, as well as the ways that homes for the elderly function effectively in this process as an environmental support composed of human and material resources.
