Abstract:

Under the global aging of population, the challenge of researching the specifics of this process is becoming increasingly important. In the latter half of the XX century scientists started researching the paradigm Life Course Perspective. It brought together interdisciplinary researches in the field of philosophy, sociology, psychology, anthropology, history, ethnography, demography, and other sciences. In this article we will examine how the emergence of this theory influenced the understanding of changes in the material resources in general, and will try to analyze financial resources of older adults in particular on the example of Russia.