Master's thesis deals with the issue of seating for the elderly. The goal is the analysis of seating for the elderly and creating structural design chairs for the elderly. The beginning of the thesis is about demography and about important information regarding elderly, their habitation, psychology, health and properties of seating specified for them. Next, the thesis deals with market research. Survey in retirement homes has the goal find out features about seating furniture in retirement homes and find out information from clients and nursing personnel about satisfaction with seating furniture and requirements for seating furniture. In the end of thesis the informations are completely evaluate and used for create a custom structural design of furniture element.