Education as a resource for the development of «third age» social community

The new pension reform in Russia expands the retirement period for both women and men. In the next five years, the number of the «third age» people, which includes Russians of retirement and pre-retirement age, will increase significantly. There is a need to improve the quality of their human capital. Under these conditions, the role of education as a resource for the preservation and development of the «third age» people grows. The purpose of the article is to reveal the problems of inclusion of Russians of the «third age» in education of various forms and types. Achieving the goal allowed: 1. To show how the state social policy should provide educational opportunities for the community of the «third age» people; 2. To justify the possibility of education to transform this community from a problem to a resource; 3. To prove the necessity of transformation of education into an intangible asset for different forms and types of professional, labor, intellectual, cultural, leisure, civil activity of the «third age» people. An empirical study is implemented by the methods of survey of the «third age» people, analysis of documents and statistical data.