the chief freelance gerontologist of the ministry of health of the country lyudmila zhilevich lyudmila averkina. hello. lyudmila averkievna zhulevich candidate of medical sciences chief freelance gerontologist of the ministry of health of belarus head of the republican gerontological center for active longevity chairman of the belarusian public association of geriatricians and gerontologists fuze of the third age, when this age begins. let's understand a little bit of your professional terminology when we we are talking about the third age, then if the world organization says this, it considers this age to be 60 years. if we talk about the republic of belarus, we accept the age of the elderly as 65 years. how many of them do we have in belarus, who are more men or women, and what percentage of them, uh, if it is possible, of course, to name, uh, figures, at least approximate ones, yes, they need medical help. this is how the aging process works. this is what, the involution of the body is happening, so almost every elderly person has some kind of chronic disease on average, if to say that the marks are 60+ from