belarus 24.by website as well as in social networks. i'm sorry to you. all the best. program postscriptum today as a guest of our studio oleg romanov chairman of the republican public association of belarus and oleg dyachenko member of the council of the republic of the national assembly of belarus and lecturer of the academy of postgraduate education in the year has just begun, it has been declared a year, and peace and creation, what do you think, what messages does this year bring and what should be focused on. what does this year mean? i think that the theme of the year is chosen very correctly and at the right time. the fact is that the processes that are now in the hot phase. they have been preparing for a long time. i'm talking about the fact that in many regions of the world there are conflicts of war, er, in essence, a new geo -structure of the world is being formed. uh, game changers that have worked for the past decades. these rules were very often destructive; they acted in the interests of a narrow part of the people of the population of a narrow part of the countries that exist on our planet. well, in the interests of the so-called golden billion and their other

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 4 to 7 diseases, the complexes that they have these diseases may not always affect the function and the second part of people who do not have diseases. they affect their dependence, for example, outside help, which requires care