The article deals with the subject of changes in the housing environment intended for the elderly. The widespread retirement and progressing aging of societies creates new and deepens existing socio-economic problems, the lifestyle and behavior of seniors and the forms of architecture they use are also changing. There is a gradual shift away from the hospital model in favor of alternative forms of senior housing, such as co-housing for seniors, generation housing, which enable older people to maintain comfortable living and identification with the place. Based on the analysis of selected examples of senior architecture, its postulated features were formulated.