No 4 (20): 16.

Sociology and Social Work

 2020

Scientific article

UDK 364.4
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Yuliya Slavashevich
Petrozavodsk State University
(Petrozavodsk, Russian Federation),
slavayuliya@yandex.ru

Social work with the elderly in rural areas

Scientific adviser:
Irina Petukhova
Paper submitted on: 12/09/2020;
Accepted on: 12/21/2020;
 Abstract. Nowadays, the global and stable development of the aging population trend, which puts before society a number of requirements of an economic, psychological, and social nature, the solution of which should be primarily aimed at providing assistance to elder citizens, as one of the most vulnerable categories of the population. Special attention should be paid to the citizens living in rural areas who face a wider range of problems in their lives such as the lack of diversity of services provided, the lack or unskilled specialists, the poor roads, the lack of transport, the mobile communications, etc. In this article, we will consider the main approaches to the study of aging, the features of rural areas, distinguish between the concepts of professional and non-professional social work, and analyze the results of an empirical study.
Keywords: social work, elderly person, professional social work, non-professional social work

For citation: Slavashevich, Y. Social work with the elderly in rural areas. StudArctic forum. 2020, 4 (20): 16.

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