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The world has recently seen a constant and intensive increase of the elderly population size. The process of the population demographic aging has affected all countries that have embarked on the path of demographic transition, including our country, it is accompanied by the older people’s growing activity. The author aims to identify the concept of the heuristic possibilities of the concept of the older generation’s resource potential, that makes it possible to consider older people as the productive members of the society, to study risks of demographic aging in Russian regions. To achieve the goal, the author analyzes the resource potential components, such as health, educational, qualification, motivational and social ones and their current status in the Russian elderly population, in general and in the regional context. The study is based on data of state statistics bodies, state authorities and results of sociological surveys of the elderly population. The analysis has shown the lack of statistical data to determine the level of the elderly population’s social potential, because the older generation’s activity level in various spheres plays an important role in its condition. In this regard, it is necessary to carry on surveys of older people to identify their activity in maintaining their health, and other components of the resource potential. The resource potential’s structural elements analysis is the base to develop methods and tools for such surveys, and their results allow characterizing the level of older people’s resource potential in the regions deeply and comprehensively.