Visually Impaired Older Adults as a Target Group of Social Rehabilitation: The Issue of the Peculiarities of their Lifestyle

Abstract

This article presents materials of an empirical study of the peculiarities of the way of life of visually impaired older people in a social rehabilitation context. In comparison with older people without disabling visual impairments, the older blind and visually impaired, according to the results of this questionnaire survey, are characterized in terms of their position in society, the preservation of the “inner core” of the personality, involvement in social and cultural life, the need for novelty and expansion of “spiritual and cultural spaces,” creative activity, and social and cultural communication.