Mental working capacity and cognitive functions as a concept of a healthy lifestyle in advanced age

Abstract

mental working capacity and cognitive functions in advanced age are the leading indicators of the active functioning of the state of the psyche, which reflects its main properties: attention, perception, thinking, memory. With the help of physical activity, mental activity and cognitive functions prolong vitality in the period of late ontogenesis. the objective of our research was to substantiate the mental working capacity and the level of cognitive functions in the context of a healthy lifestyle of the elderly. to achieve the objectives set in the research, a complex of interconnected and complementary methods was used, which were applied at the theoretical and empirical levels: theoretical (analysis and synthesis, generalization), pedagogical, sociological, psychodiagnostic and mathematical statistics. 187 men aged 60-65 participated in the study. the average passport age was 63.2 years. Research findings. the paper defines the concept of a healthy lifestyle in advanced age, determines the level of mental working capacity and cognitive functions of elderly men as important health components of the people of the third age. Conclusions. During the study of mental working capacity and cognitive functions of the elderly as a concept of a healthy lifestyle, it was determined that the need for activity is quite high. the indicators of cognitive functions were found to be within the norm of most of the respondents. 11.2 % of the participants were diagnosed with cognitive impairment and 2.6 % were diagnosed with mild dementia. It was pointed out that among persons aged 60-65, among indicators of mental working capacity, 10.7 % of men corresponded to a high level. We believe, therefore, that in modern conditions, the issue of organizing spare time of the elderly requires special attention. the complexity of solving this problem lies in the lack of norms and rules for the regulation of the leisure sphere, the lack of specialists in the leisure sphere who would possess new technologies of its organization.