МЕТОДИЧЕСКИЕ ПОДХОДЫ К ИССЛЕДОВАНИЮ СОЦИАЛЬНО-ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОГО БЛАГОПОЛУЧИЯ СТАРШИХ ВОЗРАСТНЫХ ГРУПП НАСЕЛЕНИЯ. АНАЛИТИЧЕСКИЙ ОБЗОР

Abstract

Significance The process of population aging leads to the transformation of the needs of society, since a higher share of older age groups necessitates a qualitatively different assistance to ensure socio-economic well-being, in contrast to the pre-working and working ages. To ensure effective implementation of the measures aimed at improving socio-economic well-being in older age groups special research methods are required. Purpose of the study was to systematize and generalize approaches to the development of methodological support for assessing socio-economic well-being in older adults. Material and methods. The authors have analyzed literature sources on methodological support for assessing socio-economic well-being. Results. The literature review shows that multiple studies on methodology for assessing well-being have been actively published since the first half of the 20th century. While developing methods, the researchers were focused on aspects of socioeconomic well-being that were of the highest social significance at the time of development. Throughout the 20th century, approaches to the unambiguity of the well-being criteria have been evolving, researchers were determining a list of elements that constitute well-being. At the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, researchers were intensively focused on registration and investigation of subjunctive indicators, thus shaping a comprehensive concept of socio-economic well-being that was not limited to objective criteria only. Special methods that assess socio-economic well-being in older adults were introduced into practice only at the beginning of the 21st century; national researchers still develop and apply such methods less extensively, actively using non-specialized methods for assessing well-being. Conclusion. Based on the analysis, the authors have concluded that the development of methodological approaches to study socio-economic well-being in older ages is an urgent task that is being actively addressed by national researchers.