ABSTRACT
In the spring of 2020, when I undertook my research, there were no reports on adaptive strategies undertaken by older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. I found no reports in the literature on informal learning as an individual resilience strategy. In my research, the units of analysis were the spaces of everyday, existential, non-obvious learning of 60–79 year-old under pandemic conditions. The content of the chapter was set in the critical-emancipatory stream of social gerontology. In it, I addressed the problem of supporting voiceless people who subjectively experience social stigmatization and are labeled by social policy as “at-risk individuals and groups”. The aim of the study was to reveal individual adaptation strategies, “taming” the new reality and coping with it.
