Abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine how a group of elderly pedagogue students perceived their professional role and how professional developments for elderly pedagogues have proceeded. We have looked at how professional development looks like from the scientific literature established professional criteria and how these professional criteria will be relevant to the shaping of a profession. To access our basic issues and to understand the elderly pedagogue development is the empirical evidence both of literature studies and by qualitative open interviews of importance. In order to interpret and understand the empirical material of the study did we use theories linked to profession, profess- ional identity and social constructivism. The profession criteria we have worked out of are: professional knowledge should be embedded in a systematic theory, the professionally trained has authority, the professional shall hold the code of ethics and the profession must have formed their own organization. With the support of the collected interview material and on the base of the professional criteria processed in this study have we concluded that the elderly pedagogue occupation is not a profession. Professionalization can be seen as an ongoing process that there is no possibility to delineate temporally, and if we place the occupation elderly pedagogue in a professional scale they are at the beginning of it.