The bachelor work which topic is Educational needs in retirement deals with education of elderly people. It contains the characteristics of old age and ageing process, biological, psychological and social changes which are connected with this age. It includes some basic ideas which are connected with education of adults and elderly people, the specifics of education of elderly people and the meaning of educational activities for personality development of elderly people. It describes the universities of the third age, academies of the third age and clubs for elderly people. It also includes the research whose goal is to find out which educational needs elderly people have.