Is it easy to be an elderly?

In 1990, on the initiative of the UN, it was decided to consider on October 1 an international day of the elderly. On the year, Colta.ru pays tribute to this important unprofessional holiday.

We asked young people from 17 to 24 years old, are they afraid of old age when it begins, what they expect to spend their pension and how they can finally do on it.

1. From what age, in your opinion, old age comes?

Eugene, 17, student: "From sixty -five."

Mikhail, 17, student: "From sixty seven."

Angelina, 19, student: "From sixty -five to seventy."

Marina, 19, student: “Old age comes when you feel old. Some and 80 are quite young. ”

Alexandra, 19, student: “With Fifty somewhere. "

Vladimir, 20, student: "In my opinion, old age comes only when a person himself realizes that he has grown old, and not at a certain age."

Maria, 20, student: “It seems to me that this is very individual. But if you need a specific figure, let it be seventy. ”

Julia, 20, student: "Sixty plus."

Alexander, 21, student: "From seventy."

Ekaterina, 22, coordinator: "From the age of sixty."

Anastasia, 22, teacher: “It seems to me that she has already come. It seems to me that old age is not age, old age is a state. ”

Alena, 22, philologist: “Everyone has differently. Someone already at the age of 15 feels at all 50 (and vice versa). ”

Fedor, 22, entrepreneur: “In my opinion, old age is a condition tied not to age, but to the brains. As soon as a specific person notices that his pace of development becomes lower than that of the younger representatives of his reference group, this means the onset of old age. In one, this happens at twenty, for the other - at fifty. ”

Alina, 23, art manager: "Everyone has different."

Kirill, 24 , journalist : "Probably from fifty."

2. Are you afraid of old age and why?

Eugene, 17, student: "Yes!"

Mikhail, 17, student: "Yes!"

Angelina, 19, student: “No, I'm not afraid. I think that I will have time to make old age go well. ”

Marina, 19, student: "I'm not afraid, we will all be there."

Alexandra, 19, student: "I'm afraid to die in poverty and loneliness."

Vladimir, 20, student: “I'm not afraid of old age, I believe that I will be a rather cheerful and sweet old man. It’s funny in its own way. ”

Maria, 20, student: “Yes, because I don’t know what she will be.”

Julia, 20, student: "Yes, I'm afraid to become lonely and sick."

Alexander, 21, student: "No, but I'm worried about mental health."

Catherine, 22, coordinator: “Yes, because when old age comes, the understanding that you had not had time and that there was little time, but you want a lot, but there are not the strength and there are no possibilities.”

Anastasia, 22, teacher: "No, she will come anyway, why be afraid of her?!"

Alena, 22, philologist: “I'm not afraid, because it’s the same as being afraid of, say, autumn - she will come anyway whether you want it or not. Each age has its own advantages. ”

Fedor, 22, entrepreneur: “To be afraid of old age, I need to know something terrible about her. At the same time, terrible = inexplicable, it seems that the depth of my knowledge of old age does not give me reasons to be afraid of her. ”

Alina, 23, art manager: “Yes. I want to always be beautiful! "

Kirill, 24, journalist: "I am afraid that I will change and cease to be myself in every sense."

3. What, in your opinion, are the advantages of old age, and what are the shortcomings?

Eugene, 17, student: "You can live calmly, if you have lived in dignity, but if you have lived in vain, then depression."

Mikhail, 17, student: "You are afraid to die, but you can comprehend your life."

Angelina, 19, student: “Plus: time, everyone respects you and considers you very smart. Minus: body and health. "

Marina, 19, student: “Of the minuses - everything hurts, nothing helps. The character is still spoiled. Probably there are no advantages of old age. They are sucked out of a finger. ”

Alexandra, 19, a student: “Advantages-they stop saying you: you are still small to understand something; You can travel a lot if radicolite does not torture; You can watch and read what you want, not what you need; The disadvantages are ugly, sick, grumbling. ”

Vladimir, 20, student: “The advantage is that you are no longer disappointed; The disadvantage is death, natural, still not around the corner. ”

Maria, 20, student: “Advantages - the presence of free time, wisdom, respect of others. Cons - health, loneliness, thoughts that life has almost passed. ”

Julia, 20, student: “Pros: a lot of time. Cons: diseases, loneliness. "

Alexander, 21, student: “Values: a lot of free time, you can slow down and stop racing somewhere. Experience, pathos gray hair. Disadvantages: diseases, insanity (and if it is not, then adaptability characteristic of youth is still lost), friends die. ”

Ekaterina, 22, coordinator: “In old age, there are only shortcomings, because you begin to understand that death is coming, but you haven’t managed anything.”

Anastasia, 22, the teacher: "I do not see the advantages, but the shortcomings are a myriad."

Alena, 22, philologist: “Advantages: you are no longer surprising and not shocking, it’s hard to confuse you. Disadvantages: old age is not a joy, in addition, in a deep old age there is a risk of remaining alone, since all people-agents pass one after another. ”

Fedor, 22, entrepreneur: “With age, the new limbs do not grow, it remains what comes from the only resource of old age - experience and communications. Well, the advantage, yes. At the same time, you have less energy, it is not enough to compete with those who are younger. Elephants and paws. "

Alina, 23, art manager: “Advantages: you stop being so afraid of death. Disadvantages: everything hurts. "

Kirill, 24 , journalist: “In addition to some intellectual baggage, I don’t think there are advantages. Perhaps I will look funny. And the shortcomings-to fall into insanity or some other senile disease. ”

4. What can be done in old age, what can not be done now?

Eugene, 17, student: "Smoking the phone."

Mikhail, 17, student: “To do what I did not have time to do throughout my life, calmly and measuredly, for example, to re -read my favorite works.”

Angelina, 19, student: "You can stop worrying about your future."

Marina, 19, student: "Travel more, nurse with grandchildren."

Alexandra, 19, student: "Smoking the phone."

Vladimir, 20, student: “In old age, you can teach young people to their life experience, even if not required, old people can do everything.”

Maria, 20, student: "To do only what it seems important to you."

Julia, 20, student: “To engage in needlework and household chores; Plan long -term trips. ”

Alexander, 21, student: "Ask to give way to public transport :)".

Catherine, 22, coordinator: "In old age, you can do everything slowly and think only about yourself."

Anastasia, 22, teacher: "Sleep longer."

Alena, 22, philologist: “To give smart advice to others, based on life experience (for example, my grandfather gives just awesome tips and always knows what to do best).”

Fedor, 22, entrepreneur: “In old age, one can and should be applied to the whole load of your experience on one small point. In his youth, ambitions are distracted and there is not enough background for such things. ”

Alina, 23, art manager: "Do not focus on the opposite field."

Kirill, 24, journalist : “It all depends on material capabilities. There is a common misconception that they improve with age, as if we are paid for the years lived. But Russian history shows with the help of a clear example in the form of beggarly grandmothers that this is far from always the case. ”

5. What will you spend your pension on?

Evgeny, 17, student: "On grandchildren."

Mikhail, 17, student: “Pension - what expenses will go to. For food. "

Angelina, 19, a student: “I hope I will spend a pension on travel and gifts to loved ones (if all the money that I will have for a pension).”

Marina, 19, student: "For travel."

Alexandra, 19, student: "On travel."

Vladimir, 20, student: "I would not want to live on one pension, but if it is still so, then, perhaps, to the mercy of grandchildren."

Maria, 20, student: "I hope for gifts to her offspring and travel."

Julia, 20, student: "For medicines and ice cream to granddaughters."

Alexander, 21, student: "For food, utilities."

Ekaterina, 22, coordinator: “On himself. And sometimes to the grandchildren. "

Anastasia, 22, teacher: "To pay for the apartment."

Alena, 22, philologist: “Haha, laughed. I would say that they are traveling, but we, unfortunately, are not German pensioners. ”

Fedor, 22, entrepreneur: “If in the coming years the pension legislation will not increase the potential of oil crutches due to more promising areas of the economy, then I do not see the point of deducting contributions to the FIU. In short, taking into account the Russian context, I do not count on retirement. ”

Alina, 23, art manager: "On grandchildren."

Kirill, 24 , journalist : "I would like to travel, but I will probably be for medicines."

Prepared by Julia Ryzhenko