lyudmila averkievna zhulevich candidate of medical sciences chief freelance gerontologist of the ministry of health of belarus head of the republican gerontological center active longevity, the chairman of the belarusian public association of geriatricians and gerontologists of the third age, when this age begins. let's understand a little about your professional terminology, when we talk about the third age, then if the world organization says this, it considers this age to be 60 years old. if we talk about the republic of belarus, we accept the age of the elderly as 65 years old. how many of these do we have in belarus, who are more men or women, and what percentage of them, uh, if it’s possible, of course, to name, uh, numbers, at least exemplary, yes needs medical attention. the aging process is already arranged in such a way that the involution of the body occurs, therefore, almost every elderly person has some kind of chronic disease on average, if we say this is from the mark of 60 plus from 4 to 7 diseases in the complex that they have, these diseases may not always affect functio