Introduction. The attention of modern pedagogical science to almost all age groups, including persons of elderly and senile age, makes it relevant to search for ways to optimize their livelihoods through training. Training the skills of self-regulation of persons of this age group should contribute to the harmonization of their emotional sphere and general well-being. This is important, especially in stressful situations associated with profound life changes occurring in connection with placement in a nursing home. Objective: theoretical and practical study of the problems of training self-regulation skills to enhance adaptive capacities of persons residing in a nursing home. Materials and methods. The basis of the study is an analytical re-view of theoretical sources on the problem of self-regulation training as a factor of increasing the adaptive capacity of per-sons residing in a nursing home, an empirical study of the level of psycho-social adaptation of persons living in a nursing home, pedagogical experiment. The results of the study, discussion. The range of problems associated with the training of self-regulation in order to increase the adaptive capacity of persons residing in a nursing home was identified, the effec-tiveness of the conducted training was empirically confirmed. Conclusion. The study implemented not only analytical review of theoretical and practical works on the stated problem, but also presented empirical research data on the level of psycho-social adaptation of persons living in the nursing home, and statistically confirmed the positive impact on it of conducted training of these peoples of self-regulation skills.