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Scientific journal “Vestnik NSUEM”

2017 year, number 1

INNOVATIONS AND RISKS IN MONITORING OF LEVEL AND QUALITY OF LIFE OF OLDER MUSCOVITES: ANALYSIS OF MATERIALS FOCUS-GROUP DISCUSSION

M.V. Kornilova1,2
1Institute of Additional Professional Education Social Workers, 1-st Basmanny pereulok, 10, Moscow, 105066
2Institute of Sociology of Russian Academy of Science, Ul. Krzhizhanovskogo, 24/5, building 5, Moscow, 17218, Russia
Keywords: повторные трендовые исследования, методика мониторингов, фокус-дискуссия, показатели уровня и качества жизни, выборочная совокупность, пожилые москвичи, социальная защита, социальное обслуживание, риски, пожилые группы «риска», re-trend studies, methods of monitoring, focus-group discussion, indicators of level and quality of life, the aggregate sample, elderly Muscovites, social protection, social services, the risks, the elderly «at risk» groups

Abstract

The article has a methodological focus. The author analyzes problems and prospects of the organization and conduct of a new phase of monitoring the level and quality of life of older residents. The opinions of specialists on the appropriateness of changing the sample, the frequency of the completion, the completion of the toolkit, the introduction of changes in the organizational structure of monitoring are analyzed, evaluated, summarized in the work. Estimates of specialists involved in the focus discussion, and the moderator (the author) based on their personal 5-year experience of participation in research. Participants in the discussion offered their own ideas and discussed the innovations. They also identified some of the risks that may arise when updating the toolkit, searching for respondents according to specified parameters, attracting new categories of interviewers. Types of methodological risks that can manifest themselves in the process of introducing innovations into the organizational structure of monitoring, social indicators of the level and quality of life of elderly Muscovites, are summarized and are commented in the article.