[Opportunities to make decisions and needs in measures to ensure active longevity of the population aged 60 years and...

In order to establish how older people assess their needs and ability to make decisions to ensure health and longevity, the materials of the author's database, registered as an intellectual property object, representing a sample of people aged 60+, representative of the Grodno region, taking into account gender, residence (city-village) and age (1270 people). The methods of nonparametric statistics, the large language model Qwen 2.5-Plus, the Word's Cloud service are applied. It was revealed that self-assessment of the ability to make decisions to improve one's health and well-being corresponds to Me (Q1; Q3)=3 (3; 4) on a 5-point scale, regardless of socio-demographic factors, a positive correlation of moderate strength was established for it with self-assessment of the availability of medical information. The active position of the elderly is noted, as well as their willingness to take positive measures taken by the state, which is reflected in the structure of respondents' responses, where a healthy lifestyle is presented among the leading opinions (third place). The possibilities of applying the positive experience of using information and educational support based on the gerontological approach, demonstrated in the Russian Federation, are studied.