Reforming the Ukrainian economy, namely its transition from a planned, centralized one to a market one, which acts as a fully functioning system in the world, involves the creation of a number of effective mechanisms for the social protection of citizens. In this context, the most important task facing the state is the issue of society's attitude to the elderly. With the increase in the number of elderly people in the leading countries of the world, the need to update the state policy, which would guarantee meeting the needs of people of this age category, is becoming more and more important. This directly concerns the provision of social services, but this revision should also be aimed at the maximum inclusion of people of respectable age in economic and social activity. Among other things, it is necessary to ensure in order to harmonize society and the economy with demographic changes and build an accessible society for all ages ensure full integration and participation of elderly people in the life of society; promote equitable and sustainable economic development in response to the challenges of aging; adjust social protection systems taking into account demographic changes and the social and economic consequences caused by them; to provide labor markets with the ability to respond to the economic and social consequences of an aging population; promote continuous learning by adapting the education system to changing economic, social and demographic conditions.

The second part of the article is devoted to additional normative changes recently added to the Polish legal system, which are provided by Polish social assistance to war refugees from the territory of Ukraine.

The Russian military aggression in Ukraine, which began in the early morning of February 24, 2022, forced the citizens of Ukraine, regardless of these eastern territories, to flee to Poland and other EU member states. A sharp increase in the number of war refugees, depending on women and children, which affects the territory of Ukraine, which causes a phenomenon unprecedented in Europe since real time II, because the war triggers the activation by the state providing aid to Ukrainian shelters, thanks to which the citizen receives the effect during the period of forced relief of the social protection standard. The article is devoted to additional normative changes recently added to the Polish legal system, which are provided by Polish social assistance to war refugees from the territory of Ukraine.