From Social Provision to Social Quality: About the Scientific Work of Valentin Dementievich Roik

The article is devoted to the memory of the untimely deceased famous Russian scientist, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Valentin Dementievich Roik, a brief overview of his vast creative heritage, his new work «Aging. Health. The quality of life of the older generation», which is published posthumously. The range of scientific interests of Valentin Dementievich is extremely extensive and wide: social insurance and social security; wages; labor relations; poverty and social inequality; social cohesion; the level and quality of life; the problems of population aging. In recent years, significant professional efforts of Valentin Dementievich have been directed to research on the mechanisms of forming a holistic social policy, and several monographs and textbooks on this issue have been published. The article is devoted to the memory of the untimely deceased famous Russian scientist, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Valentin Dementievich Roik, a brief overview of his vast creative heritage, his new work "Aging. Health. The quality of life of the older generation", which is published posthumously. The range of scientific interests of Valentin Dementievich is extremely extensive and wide: social insurance and social security; wages; labor relations; poverty and social inequality; social cohesion; the level and quality of life; the problems of population aging. In recent years, significant professional efforts of Valentin Dementievich have been directed to research on the mechanisms of forming a holistic social policy, and several monographs and textbooks on this issue have been published. The published book begins with a comprehensive analysis of the problems of a person's life course as a central, social, and interdisciplinary one. Noted the importance of the concept of intentionality (semantic orientation), kernel congenital, sustainable value-semantic structure of personality, which is essential in the process of identity formation, personal, professional, qualities of an individual that external conditions have a certain influence on the entire life of man. In the subsequent chapters of the book published by specified external socio-cultural conditions that influence the person throughout his life, his social and professional development, material well-being, and quality of life, including taking into account the state of health, especially in old age, the quality of life of the older generation, large parts of the population an ageing society.