Özet:

The significant increase in the number of elderly people in Turkey every day and the increasing rate of elderly people in society make it necessary to deal with the ageing phenomenon with very different aspects in our country and to produce different solutions for elderly people. In this context, the academic studies focusing on the subject of aging are important with the objects of the subject being discussed in the formation of the theoretical substructure or in practice. It is also important that the evaluation of the scientific studies on ageing in certain periods, as it is a guide for future studies to be done. The aim of this study is also to study the graduate theses on aging in Turkey according to certain categories and to evaluate the findings that arise and create a agenda for the theses to be made in the future. In the study, the keywords "aging, aging and aging" were reached to the theses by scanning the thesis database of the Higher Education Council (YÖK) and in some universities' library catalogues. According to the research, 521 postgraduate theses conducted until September 2018 were identified and 398 of them were selected as sample. The theses were divided into categories according to years, subjects, methods, fields of expertise, sources, universities and institutions and subsequently subjected to content analysis. The findings have found that, in theoretical and methodological sense, there are shortcomings in the texts in the literature. In the theses, it was also found that the fact of aging was considered mainly from the health framework of the elderly and many topics that reflect the current agenda of the elderly in Turkey were ignored. In addition, when the theses are evaluated according to the disciplines they produce, it has been shown that the subject of aging is emphasized in some fields of expertise, while some fields are still far from this subject.