THE LIFE QUALITY RESEARCH IN CORRELATION WITH SUBJECTIVE AGE AT THE LATE ONTOGENESIS STAGE

Abstract

The article deals with the peculiarities of psychological and physical health components as the life quality indicators in correlation with the subjective age at the late ontogenesis stage (58-93 years) in groups of people having different lifestyles: elderly non-working people in home-based social services; elderly non-working people, leading an active lifestyle. It has been established that the life quality is at a rather low level and decreases with age. An active lifestyle, as well as cohabitation contributes to keeping higher life quality. Assessing the subjective age is characterized by a positive illusion. The subjective age is not correlated with the chronological age, as well as with single or cohabiting. An active lifestyle allows you to evaluate your “Do-age” and “Look-age” younger than you are. The life quality is correlated with the subjective age: most connections are from the biological subjective age and the physical component of health.

Keywords

• safe aging
• life quality
• physical health
• psychological health
• subjective age