Attitude to old age through death attitude

Abstract

Population ageing has become one of the most acute demographic challenges for all developed and developing countries, and for Russia this call in the foreseeable future looks even sharper than for many other countries. The growing proportion of old people raises the issue of society’s attitude to anility: both old and young people attitude. The author of this article will test the hypothesizes about the relation of old age with the approach of death, as well as will estimate the perception of old age as the perception of death in accordance with sex, age, income and education, religion.