Galkin K.A. Health-saving practices of elderly people in rural areas after COVID-19. Nizhny Novgorod University named after N. I. Lobachevsky. Social Sciences. 2022. № 3 (67). P. 126-134. DOI 10.52452 ...

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Abstract

The article discusses the features of health-saving practices of elderly people who have undergone COVID-19 and live in rural areas. The research focuses on everyday practices and their social projections in the context of the life of elderly people in rural areas. The factors influencing the formation of various health-saving strategies in the elderly are named. The most dangerous for all health-saving strategies of the elderly after COVID-19 are: infrastructural difficulties, problems associated with the development of rural medicine, lack of support, communication and communication in the local community. The researchers focus on the peculiarities of the experiences of the elderly and how the elderly themselves described in narratives changes in practices and requests for medical help or for the help of the local community after the COVID-19. The empirical basis of the study is semi-structured interviews that were collected in three villages in the south-east of the Republic of Karelia with an infrastructure deficit, with infrastructure development problems. The strategies outlined in the study form a kind of continuum from the transition to self-medication practices and the use of selfmedication by older people to requests for help, which differ depending on what kind of help older people resorted to, starting from the help of the local community and ending with medical care that was available in rural areas. Consideration of the peculiarities of tension in the perceptions and experiences of older people regarding healthsaving practices can contribute to the development of topical discussions existing in social policy regarding the reform and transformation of the treatment of older people, improving the quality of medical care for those elderly people who have suffered COVID-19 and are undergoing inpatient treatment, turning to rural medicine and waiting for help from the rural community.