The very process of aging (and dying8), according to N.F.Shakhmatov, is primarily associated with a decrease in physical capabilities, and old age (and death9) is reflected in the consciousness of an elderly person as a predominantly physical ailment. However, as we age, the attitude to the physical condition varies significantly: from debilitating experiences about health, to a tolerant or indifferent attitude to physical ailments. Such reflection by the time of late age finds, according to N.F. Shakhmatov, acceptance or non-acceptance of senile existence (dying). Internally, in a harmonious (positive) version of the development of old age, a person comes to a contemplative, calm, self-sufficient life position by revising the attitudes, views, values and meanings born in past ages. This position, born as a result of active creative work, that brings with it satisfaction with the present and with oneself. "The attitude to one's own aging is an active element of a person's psychic life at a late age. In fact, this is the principle by which it is possible to distinguish between favorable and unfavorable forms of mental aging. Good health, the moderate nature of age-related changes, the preservation of an active lifestyle, the presence of a family, material prosperity, as well as past achievements, awards, titles, are not the key to realizing old age as an interesting, full-fledged period of life"; as well as understanding the mystery of death, preparing for it. "And in the presence of all of the above, a person in the period of late adulthood and old age can consider himself flawed, deprived, sick, miserable and unhappy," and perceive his death as frightening, dividing, meaningless, putting the final end (hopelessness and the lack of the possibility of overcoming it). "Acceptance of one's own aging (and hence death) is the result of active creative work on rethinking life attitudes and positions, revaluation of life values."10
A holistic approach to the device of personality
Here we need to digress from the stated topic, since further material will be based on a number of theses, without at least a brief coverage of which its consideration is difficult (they (theses) were presented in more detail by us at the LIX International Scientific and Practical Conference "Worldscience: problemsandinnovation"