Milieu therapy as a method for improving the quality of life of the old people

Abstract

Nowadays, both in developing countries and in industrialized countries, there is a process of increasing life expectancy, which together with the problem of low birth rates leads to the phenomenon of “aging population”. Providing care to the elderly is not only a purely medical problem, but the social aspect is equally important. An important component of the lifestyle of an elderly person is recreation - the processes of restoring vitality, relieving mental stress and recovery, carried out in various forms of recreation, nutrition, active or passive leisure. Modern society and the health care system face three most important tasks: continuing an active life with minimal losses from the disorders inherent in old age, combating high morbidity in old age and ensuring a dignified end to the lives of aging people. Although the provision of medical and social assistance to the elderly is organized and provided as needed, ensuring the accessibility and sufficient presence in their lives of the social aspect and its communicative component is not supported in our country at the state level and is not regulated by law. Purpose. The purpose of the work is to improve the quality of life of the elderly through the organization of the social component of life by arranging their leisure. Results. To achieve this goal, it was proposed to use the principles and methods of milieu therapy, which means “treatment by the environment”.