Strategies for maintaining the individual health of the elderly: urban and rural contexts
The article discusses the features that, in the regional aspect, influence the choice of various strategies for the preservation of individual health by older people. It is concluded that the individual health of the elderly depends on the specific social environment, as well as on individual psycho...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:508bf83ee11745e79a55633865fb3397 2023-06-06T11:58:50+02:00 Strategies for maintaining the individual health of the elderly: urban and rural contexts Konstantin A. Galkin 2023-03-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.19181/snsp.2023.11.1.9 https://doaj.org/article/508bf83ee11745e79a55633865fb3397 RU rus Russian Academy of Sciences (FCTAS RAS), Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology https://www.socnp.ru/index.php/snsp/article/view/9334/9130 https://doaj.org/toc/2413-6891 2413-6891 doi:10.19181/snsp.2023.11.1.9 https://doaj.org/article/508bf83ee11745e79a55633865fb3397 Социологическая наука и социальная практика, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 157-172 (2023) elderly people socio-economic adaptation elderly people’s health city rural area elderly people’s health care Sociology (General) HM401-1281 Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology HT101-395 article 2023 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.19181/snsp.2023.11.1.9 2023-04-16T00:32:45Z The article discusses the features that, in the regional aspect, influence the choice of various strategies for the preservation of individual health by older people. It is concluded that the individual health of the elderly depends on the specific social environment, as well as on individual psychological and physiological factors, on the level of activity and autonomy in decision-making. The study was conducted by the Sociological Institute of the RAS – branch of the FCTAS RAS from March to September 2022 in two regions of the Russian Federation: St. Petersburg and rural areas of the Republic of Karelia. The main research method used was semi-structured interviews, the approach to analysing interview data was thematic. One of the results of the analysis is the identification of specific factors of two health preservation strategies typical for older people: self-help, with distinctive features of autonomy in the social environment, the poor financial situation of representatives of this strategy and their search for alternative methods of treatment; and a care strategy related to older people’s trust in institutional medicine, their experience in managing a chronic disease, and their higher financial status. The results of the study allow us to conclude that when choosing a particular strategy, older people are guided by such factors as the level of trust in the social environment in general and profess ional medicine in particular, individual psychological and emotional aspects of ideas about maintaining one’s health and the level of personal material well-being. Article in Journal/Newspaper Republic of Karelia Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Sociologicheskaja nauka i social'naja praktika 11 1 157 172 |
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The article discusses the features that, in the regional aspect, influence the choice of various strategies for the preservation of individual health by older people. It is concluded that the individual health of the elderly depends on the specific social environment, as well as on individual psychological and physiological factors, on the level of activity and autonomy in decision-making. The study was conducted by the Sociological Institute of the RAS – branch of the FCTAS RAS from March to September 2022 in two regions of the Russian Federation: St. Petersburg and rural areas of the Republic of Karelia. The main research method used was semi-structured interviews, the approach to analysing interview data was thematic. One of the results of the analysis is the identification of specific factors of two health preservation strategies typical for older people: self-help, with distinctive features of autonomy in the social environment, the poor financial situation of representatives of this strategy and their search for alternative methods of treatment; and a care strategy related to older people’s trust in institutional medicine, their experience in managing a chronic disease, and their higher financial status. The results of the study allow us to conclude that when choosing a particular strategy, older people are guided by such factors as the level of trust in the social environment in general and profess ional medicine in particular, individual psychological and emotional aspects of ideas about maintaining one’s health and the level of personal material well-being. |
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