DOI: 10.25136/2409-7144.2021.6.35924

Abstract: Providing employment opportunities for senior citizens in the context of increasing life expectancy of the  population is worldwide recognized as a necessary condition for active aging. Solution of this problem is mainstreamed due to raising the retirement age. The goals of this research is to describe the trends in the sphere of employment of senior citizens in the Russian Federation, which includes people of retirement and pre-retirement age, as well as assess the possibilities of implementing work activity of “age” employees. The problem of employment of Russian senior citizens is examined via analysis and systematization of the government statistics and secondary analysis of the data of monitoring and one-time sociological research (Russian monitoring of economic situation and public health, online surveys of employers and job applicants, local regional studies). The acquired results reveal the existing contradiction between the increasing motivation of senior citizens to continue work activity and inability of the system of social production to ensure necessary opportunities for its implementation. The steps taken by the government on providing legal guarantees for employment of the senior citizens, namely people of pre-retirement age, have not yet yielded the desired results. Having analyzed the factors that promote or impede the employment of senior citizens, the authors conclude on the need of the following issues to be addressed as a matter of urgency: interest of the employers in providing employment for senior citizens, and overcoming ageist stereotypes in the society that unreasonably reduce the value of labor capacity of “age” employees.

DOI: 10.25136/2409-7144.2020.6.33174

Abstract: This article is dedicated to certain aspects in development of social services for senior citizens. Demographic trend of aging of the population actualizes solution of the questions related to livelihood of senior people, among which is the development and implementation of new types of social services and technologies meeting the essential need of senior population. On the example of in-patient replacement technology “foster family for seniors”, the article explores the relevant issues of implementation of such social technologies. High demand for such life order of the senior citizens, and obvious advantages of economic and sociocultural characteristics in relation to the traditional forms of in-patient facilities, substantiate the need to expanding the scale of its utilization and carrying out research on the problems and results of its implementation. Analysis is conducted on the example of Irkutsk Region, using the methods of qualitative semi-structured interview with the participants of foster families and expert assessments, ensuring implementation of the technology. The a special role of assessment of the quality and results of implementation of social technology in the aspect of its development is determined. The author highlights the vectors of control and assessment of results of implementation of the technology and function of their subjects, which include: senior citizens living in foster families; members of foster families; personnel accompanying foster families; experts and heads of the structures of social service and social protection involved in the process of implementation of foster family technology for senior population.

DOI: 10.25136/2409-7144.2018.12.28224

Abstract: This article is dedicated to the analysis of practices of social dependency and parasitism conducted based on the results of empirical study. Social dependency, being the product of situation of the socioeconomic dependency from the society, can emerge  as a result of the objective factors (senior age, illness, disability), as well as in form of the conscious desire of an individual to consume public resources not giving anything in return. At the same time, regardless of the circumstances and factors of its origination, dependency is economically burdensome for the society and destructive for its moral principles, and thus requires initiating practical measures aimed at reducing its proliferation. The analysis of the content of practices of social dependency and parasitism was carried out in 2017-2018 through the sociological survey in one of the subjects of the Russian Federation – Irkutsk Oblast. The strategy was based on the combination of qualitative and quantitative methods of collecting information, expert evaluations of the social protection specialists, and opinion of the common respondents. One of the goals lies in classification of the practices of social dependency and parasitism for the purpose of systematization of the newly accumulated knowledge and creation of the information base for development of practical measures on reducing the expansion of such phenomenon. The author introduces the following typological attributes: affiliation of the subjects of dependency practices to certain population categories; factors of emergence and maintenance of dependency practices; legal consequences of implementation of dependency practices. Grouping of the determined practices of social dependency and parasitism in accordance with the highlighted typological attributed represents the foundation for identifying the main vectors of work with separate population categories aimed at minimization of practices of social dependency and parasitism.