REALIZATION OF THE POTENTIAL OF THE OLDER GENERATION. STANDARD OF LIVING

The basic indicators of socio-economic development of societies are changing in the modern world. The importance of opinion polls is growing, giving more weight to subjective assessments of the processes taking place in society. The per capita GDP indicator, which has been the main integral measure of social progress for many decades, gives way to comprehensive indicators of the quality of life and well-being. Such estimates are used to study and evaluate complexly structured phenomena. The scientific community has been trying to offer a tool to assess the quality of life and well-being of people. Currently, we understand that this tool should contain both objective data describing the assessed phenomenon and subjective assessments designed to take into account the subjective attitude of people. At the same time, in modern society there is a process of reducing the share of the working population and increasing the number of older people. Therefore, in this work, we focused on people who have reached retirement age. The paper compares statistical data and sociological survey data to assess the quality of life of older people in the Tomsk region. The analytical note «The senior generation of the Tomsk region: demography and participation in the labor market» published by Tomskstat in 2019, and the sociological poll «Problems of the older generation», conducted at the TPU Lifelong Well-being Lab in 2019б became the sources of information. The results show that, based on statistical data, the quality of life of pensioners over the past few years has not changed or increased slightly, while, based on sociological data, it remained at the same level or slightly decreased.