Email this article Old Age As an Interdisciplinary Problem
- Authors: Yurevich A.V.1
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Affiliations:
- Institute of Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: Vol 88, No 6 (2018)
- Pages: 463-468
- Section: Point of View
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1019-3316/article/view/179461
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S101933161806014X
- ID: 179461
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Abstract
This article is dedicated to social and psychological factors of aging, as well as to the psychological characteristics of old age. Note that old age is just starting to be understood as an age of significant reserves. The study of psychological mechanisms of aging is a new field, which requires close attention. The main conclusion reached by the author is that modern society needs a special ideology for old age, which would include economic, social, and psychological components.
About the authors
A. V. Yurevich
Institute of Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences
Author for correspondence.
Email: av.yurevich@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow
