Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Vision of Healthy Lifestyle for Women of Older Generation

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2011 4 (9)
Authors
Arkhipova, Valentina L.; Moskovchenko, Olga N.
Contact information
Arkhipova, Valentina L. : Siberian Federal University , 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041 Russia , e-mail: ; Moskovchenko, Olga N. : Siberian Federal University , 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041 Russia
Keywords
health; healthy style of life; the older generation; questioning; factors; that form healthy style of life
Abstract

Period of active longevity is caused by a large number of biological and social factors, determined by the genetic structure of an organism and its adaptive reactions to external and internal behavioral factors. Elderly persons lifestyle to the full extent can be related to external factors. At this age the style of life has a great influence on health, and consequently, on the quality of life. It is possible to live a healthy lifestyle only on condition that a person has a general concept of its components. This general concept can be changed during some period of time. The concept depends on persons social status in society, and includes moral, cultural and social norms, values and ideals. It also includes age, sex, standard of living, education and residency in the district, city (town) where there are facilities to realise the motor function. In order to study social background of keeping a healthy lifestyle, the survey of women of older generation, who attend health clubs has been conducted. The urgent character of this problem is caused by the fact that in modern sociocultural environment researches of healthy lifestyle are held on schoolchildren, students and middle aged people. There are few researches which characterise the concept of healthy lifestyle of people of older generation. The introduced experimental material confirms the urgent character of the problem. The algorithm of evaluation of the relevance of the factors that characterise the healthy lifestyle had been developed. Concepts of women of the older generation, who attend health groups are represented.

Pages
1301-1309
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/2496

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