Abstract: ObjectiveTo investigate social adjustment in retired people and to provide elemental information to government for related policy making.MethodsMulti-stage stratified random cluster sampling and a face-to-face questionnaire survey were conducted.Totally 1 567 respondents were investigated.ResultsBefore retirement,the score of partici pating in activities was 15.72±3.31 and 16.13±2.82 for the male and the female residents,respectively,but the scores were 14.61±2.73 and 15.02±4.22 after retirement.In male residents,the trust score before and after retirement were 8.60±1.53 and 8.73±1.65,respectively,and in the female residents,the scores were 8.53±1.52 and 8.73±1.59,respectively.Concerns about going out in the male residents before retirement were safety(41.2%),health(29.4%),and others(29.4%),while after the retirement the concerns were health(61.8%),safety(26.5%),and others(11.8%).In female residents,the concerns about going out were safety(42.9%),health(28.6%),and others(28.6%) before the retirement,and health(52.3%),others(27.3%),and safety factors(20.5%) after the retirement.ConclusionRetirement has a great impact on the ability of social adaptation among the elderly;after retirement,the elderly have a considerable decline in all aspects of social adaptive ability.