The problem of social exclusion of the elderly in rural areas

Abstract

The attention in this article is given to common problem of elderly people social exclusion in rural areas. Though social exclusion is a problem itself, but it directly affect different social risk groups. According to this authors pay attention to the assumptions of formation of social exclusion of the elderly in whole and then distinguish the potential characteristics of social exclusion of the elderly in rural areas. Different theoretical approaches of this phenomenon enable to do better empirical insights of rural elderly social exclusion analysis. Following this the purpose of investigation was to analyse, how the social exclusion of the elderly in rural areas occurs. The analysis and synthesis of the scientific literature, the analysis of documents and secondary data let reveal the characteristics of existing problem of elderly people in rural areas.