LIFE PLANNING AT OLDER AGE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON SELF-LIMITING ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES OF THE OLDER GENERATION

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to study the influence of the life planning factor of representatives of the older age group on their self-limiting attitudes and practices. The article examines the influence of the planning factor on the self-limiting attitudes and practices of the older generation. The planning factor is presented in two options: planning of life at old age, carried out during the previous life stages (retrospective view), as well as actual planning by older people of their future for different periods. As a result of a study carried out on the basis of a questionnaire survey of the population aged 60 years and over (2019), it was found that the first type of planning has a very contradictory impact on the attitudes and practices of older people, while the second is definitely positive. It is also substantiated that life planning determines, first of all, a lower degree of interiorization of negative gerontostereotypes (thereby providing internal conditions for the implementation of a wider range of practices). However, if the limitations in the life practices of older people are determined from the outside (negative gerontostereotypes and attitudes of people reference for the elderly), then there is no statistically significant relationship between the values of (non) implementation of these practices and the planning factor.