of-staff gerontologist, the ministry of health of the country, lyudmila zhilevich hello lyudmila averkievna zhulevich, candidate of medical sciences, chief non-staff 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, when does this one start? age, let's understand a little bit about 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. yes, the involution of the body occurs and therefore almost every elderly person has some kind of chronic disease on average, if to say this is a mark of 60+ from 4 to 7 diseases in the complex that they have these diseases may not always affect the function and the second part of people who do not