SOCIAL HEALTH OF THE ELDERLY POPULATION IN THE SPHERE OF FAMILY RELATIONS (ON EXAMPLE OF BELGOROD OBLAST)
The article is devoted to the analysis of socially healthy practices implemented by older people in family relations and problems preventing this. On the basis of empirical data obtained as a result of author's sociological survey, implemented in 2008-2012, it is proved that at the high importance for older people of the family sphere, they objectively have fewer opportunities for realizing the potential of blood relations for social adaptation and self-actualization than other age groups. The mechanisms of increase of social health of the elderly provides organization assistance in the development of practices of mutual aid, especially within the local communities in which the factor of physical fragmentation is minimized.