Vital Activity of the People with Disabilities and Pensioneers of the Metropolitan City under Pandemic Conditions

Relevance. The article considers the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the livelihoods of people with disabilities and pensioners from a sociological point of view. The subject of the research is a pandemic as a factor of vital activity. The object of the research is the vital activity of the people with disabilities and pensioners in pandemic situation. Social object is the people with disabilities and pensioners of the metropolitan city. The analysis of the structure of the "people with disabilities and pensioners" is given; the scale of mortality among this group in comparison with other age groups, the dependence of the quality and life expectancy of the age-disabled population on the conditions of the urban environment of the metropolitan and the implementation of urban and social programs.
The purpose of the study is to study the peculiarities of the perception of the urban environment by the people with disabilities and pensioners under the crisis epidemiological conditions, its influence and the degree of their adaptation to this environment.
Objectives: to give theoretical and empirical interpretation of the category of "the people with disabilities and pensioners", which differs from usual definition of this category by other authors; to analyze the scale of mortality of "the people with disabilities and pensioners" under coronavirus epidemic conditions; to determine the interdependence of mortality and adaptive behavior of this category of people; to characterize the socio-demographic portrait of Vitostrata of "the people with disabilities and pensioners".
Methodology. The study was carried out on the basis of a sociological approach using private sociological theories: sociology of the city, sociology of labor, the theory of social change (P. Štompka), as well as the principles of social demography [1].
Results. To solve the set of research tasks, the author studied the negative and positive factors affecting the life of “the people with disabilities and pensioners” in the pre-pandemic period.
Conclusions. The author presents a new interpretation of the category of “the people with disabilities and pensioners” and gives its socio-demographic portrait; analyzed the scale of mortality of this category of people in a pandemic; determined the interdependence of mortality and adaptive behavior of “the people with disabilities and pensioners”.

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