SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SELF-PRESERVATION BEHAVIOR OF ELDERLY PEOPLE: REGIONAL ASPECT


Cite item

Full Text

Abstract

The issue associated with the retention and prolongation of life longevity of elderly people is relevant within the frames of sociological thought. As known, the transition of Russian society to the new model of market relations caused the transformation of value orientations of the population within the frames of which health begins to be considered by the individuals as a private property. Steady social views could not but affect the health of elderly people who, because of age-related changes, lose their physiological potential. In sociology, the study of the issue related to the retention of life longevity of persons is carried out through the concept of “self-preservation behavior”. The purpose of this paper is to carry out complex analysis associated with the study of engagement of elderly people in following certain rules of “culture” of self-preservation behavior. The research tasks were solved on the basis of the application of the technique of questioning and depth interview carried out among elderly people of Volgograd. According to the results of the carried out study, it was determined that the “culture” of self-preservation behavior supposes, on the one hand, the following certain rules of the healthy lifestyle (eutrophy, moderate physical activity, etc.), on the other hand, early medical help sought. Social relations between a doctor and a patient are the platform, based on which, the curing process is built that promotes the sustention of life longevity of an individual. As it was determined, the traditional interrelation between a doctor and a patient (of elderly age) is fully or partly lost. The results of the study proved as well that men, as against women, during their everyday practice, deviate more often from the following the rules appropriate for the “culture” of self-preservation behavior.        

About the authors

Lubov Aleksandrovna Leshchenko

Volgograd Institute of Management, Branch of RANEPA, Volgograd

Author for correspondence.
Email: LLA24011@yandex.ru

postgraduate student

Russian Federation

References

  1. Vorobyev R.V., Korotkova A.V. Analytical review of healthy ageing in the European countries and Russian Federation. Sotsialnye aspecty zdorovya naseleniya, 2016, vol. 52, no. 5, p. 3.
  2. Aristotle. Sobranie sochineniy. V 4 t. [Collected works. In 4 vol.]. Moscow, Mysl’ Publ., 1976. Vol. 1, 550 p.
  3. Seneka Lucius Annaeus. Pisma Lutsiliyu [Letters to Lucilium]. Simferopol, Renome Publ., 1998. 384 p.
  4. Seneka Lucius Annaeus. O blagodeyaniyakh [About the blessings]. Moscow, Respublika Publ., 1995. 630 p.
  5. Bacon F. Experiences or moral and political instruction. 1597–1612. Collected works in 2 vol., vol. 2. Moscow, Mysl’ Publ., 1978, pp. 348–481.
  6. Hobbes T. Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil. Collected works in 2 vol., vol. 2. Moscow, Mysl’ Publ., 1991, pp. 3–623.
  7. Hobbes T. Human Nature. Collected works in 2 vol., vol. 1. Moscow, Mysl’ Publ., 1989, pp. 507–573.
  8. Sergeeva O.V. Sociology of aging and ageism: a review of the contribution of western approaches. Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya 7: Filosofiya. Sotsiologiya i sotsialnye tekhnologii, 2012, no. 2, pp. 74–79.
  9. Cumming E., Henry W. Growing Old: The Process of Disengagement. New York, Basic Books, 1961. 293 p.
  10. Havighurst R.J., Neugarten B.L., Tobin S.S. Disengagement and Patterns of Aging. Middle Age and Aging: A Reader in Social Psychology. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1968, pp. 161–172.
  11. Fokina E.V. Connection of theories of aging and intergenerational approach in social education. Izvestiya Tulskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Gumanitarnye nauki, 2011, no. 2, pp. 233–241.
  12. Durkheim E. Sotsiologiya i teoriya poznaniya [Sociology and thorium of knowledge]. Moscow, Moskovskiy gos. universitet Publ., 1980. 394 p.
  13. Parsons T. Sistema sovremennykh obshchestv [The system of modern societies]. Moscow, Aspekt Press Publ., 1998. 270 p.
  14. Weber M. Basic sociological concepts. Selected works. Moscow, Progress Publ., 1990, pp. 602–643.
  15. Antonov A.I. Experience in the study of health and life extension plans. Sotsialnye problemy zdorovya i prodolzhitelnosti zhizni. Moscow, 1989, pp. 44–45.
  16. Zhuravleva I.V. Self-protective behavior and health. Problemy demograficheskogo razvitiya SSSR. Moscow, 1998, pp. 111–112.
  17. Shklyaruk V.Ya. Self-preserving behavior as a type of demographic behavior. Vestnik Saratovskogo gosudarstvennogo tekhnicheskogo universiteta, 2011, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 316–326.
  18. Zhuravlev I.V. Otnoshenie k zdorovyu individa i obshchestva [Attitude to the health of the individual and society]. Moscow, Nauka Publ., 2006. 238 p.
  19. Kovaleva A.A. Self-care behavior in the system of health affecting factors. Zurnal sotsiologii i sotsialnoy antropologii, 2008, vol. XI, no. 2, pp. 179–191.
  20. Igoshev M.V. Societal approach to interpretation of the self-preservation behavior. Teoriya i praktika obshchestvennogo razvitiya, 2013, no. 7, pp. 39–41.
  21. Karakhanova T.M. Time of sleep, nutrition, self-care as actors of health preservation. Sbornik materialov Vseros. nauch.-prakt. konf. “Obshchestvo i zdorovie: sovremennoe sostoyanie i tendentsii razvitiya”. Moscow, ROS Publ., 2013, pp. 554–565.

Supplementary files

Supplementary Files
Action
1. JATS XML
Download

Copyright (c)



This website uses cookies

You consent to our cookies if you continue to use our website.

About Cookies