THE FORMATION OF READINESS OF GERONTOVOLUNTEERS TO REALIZATION OF VOLUNTARY ACTIVITY

The changes in jural legislation in the sphere of population protection make the specialists find new forms and methods of social work with elderly people taking into consideration their basic requirements. In this particular case we consider mutual aid as one of directions of development and strengthening the functional regulator of elderly people community according to the principle “equal to equal”. We see the construction of the ways of elderly people’s activation solution in creation of voluntary community of elderly people who need volunteer help including them in working activity. This view plays the role of goal-value which regulates the field of work of elderly people. Help, mutual aid are generally known values, they are social norms in the society. Social rules are the basis of collective behaviour and they predetermine the transition from disorganized to organized behaviour. The inclusion of active pensioners in gerontovoluntary requires professional approach to their preparation. The inclusion in this community does not mean that the pensioner may be ready for performing his role of gerontovoluntary. He/she can support the ideas of this community but may not be functionally ready for making some actions. According to our opinion the readiness for gerontovoluntary activity are the personal qualities which cause effective activity of gerontovoluntary, motivational-value relation to the activity, the presence of stable knowledge about the functions of gerontovoluntary work, the forms and methods of gerontovoluntary work at professional level, the ability to determine and decide problems of persons under care, the presence of communicative skills. The readiness for gerontovoluntary activity must be figured out through the display of definite criteria and indices of professionalism. The activation of elderly population by means of gerontovoluntary work has double effect. On the one hand, active pensioners are involved in the decision of social problems of society. On the other hand, a great amount of elderly people and disabled people will get support. Thus, realization of modern legislative basis will be more effective if we include the subject itself in the decision of problems of social policy of state subject.

activation of elderly people, system of mutual aid, forms and methods of social works, formation of social movement of gerontovoluntary, criteria and indices of readiness for gerontovoluntary work