Measuring active aging for government policy planning: a case of Russia

Liudmila Zasimova () and Maria Sheluntcova ()

HSE Working papers from National Research University Higher School of Economics

Abstract: Rising life expectancy and an aging population highlight the need for appropriate government policies to transform of the role of the elderly from a dependent part of the population to an economically active one. This paper aims to measure active aging of the elderly in Russia. We review definitions of active aging and base our research on the concept of the World Health Organization. Active aging is characterized by three components: health, participation, and security. We select indicators for these components and aggregate them into three sub-indexes which become the outcome index of active aging. As a result, the sample is divided into two groups of elderly people in Russia, “actively aging” and “inactively aging”. The empirical research is based on the Study of Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE). Our findings show that 70% of the elderly population are at the intersection of “health” and “participation in social activities”; 61,2% between “health” and “security”; 73,5% between “security” and “participation in social activities”. Overall, 58,5% of Russian senior citizens meet all three criteria of active aging, thus creating a great challenge for policy response

Keywords: active aging; public policy; the elderly; health; participation; security; Russia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J14 J18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2014
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Published in WP BRP Series: Public Administration / PA, January 2014, pages 1-30

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