The process of ageing implies changes in elder people social life. Getting retired, the loss of friends and life partners, and the sense of getting physically older make a vast influence on how elder experience ageing in a social perspective. The society has the responsibility of finding ways to offer elder people a satisfactory eldercare, taking in consideration all the needs of the individual. Elder persons with home assistance services are offered help to conduct a social life relating to their needs. According to research carried on by social gerontologists, the experiences of social ageing are not collective, but personal. The aim of this paper has been to gain further understanding about how elder people living at home experience their social ageing, and how the society achieves its task in relation to this matter. The results demonstrate that elders’ experiences are different depending on their life situation, personality, needs and desires