At present, IT have become an indispensable condition for the quality of education, but they are rarely applied in education of senior citizens and their range is quite narrow. An exception is the methods of teaching computer literacy to older adults, which is much narrower than IT in education. Meanwhile, they are no less essential both for adaptation of the elderly to the contemporary conditions of life and for the young generations. The authors prove that application of these technologies can change the quality of life for older adults and enables them to extend their professional activity, to broaden their scope of communication, and to raise their level of social adaptation to the environment and daily life. It has been found during the research conducted that the use of IT in education of senior citizens has some essential features and requires special conditions of application. In the research, questionnaire survey and testing, indepth interview, expert survey, and participant observation methods were used that allowed studying the senior citizens' demands for educational services, computer literacy improvement, as well as barriers and risks in their getting the education, conditions for enhancing its efficiency. During the research, disadvantages in development of IT and software products targeted for education of the aged have been found. The results obtained allow contributing to the development of concepts of thriving old age, active longevity, and higher social and professional engagement of older adults. They are of great importance both for the very senior citizens and for education providers, as well as for developers of educational software products needed by older adults and their teachers.

Bronchial asthma in adolescents is an actual problem in the XXI century. In modern conditions, the role of psycho-emotional and psychosocial factors in etiology and pathogenesis of the disease increased. In the city of Moscow and the Moscow region, there were examined 200 adolescents aged 14-15 years (120 boys, 80 girls) with asthma - an experimental group and 200 adolescents at the same age (110 boys, 90 girls) without it - a control group. To study psychological characteristics of the adolescents and monitoring of effectiveness of the program, there has been selected a number of psychological tests - the multifactor method of studying personality (FPI); the method for determining of the subjective control level (ACC); self-esteem; health, activity, mood (SAN) and the leading emotional modality. Initial diagnosis of these techniques has allowed us to determine specificity of personal organization of the adolescents with psychosomatic diseases, as well as directions and priorities in the work with them. After training of the adolescents, there has been conducted a follow-up study. Independent groups of data not obeying the normal distribution law were compared using the non-parametric Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test, nonparametric Mann-Whitney test and the Exact test. It has been found that delivery of social-psychological assistance lead to increased stress resistance and adaptability by developing the skills of self-control and selfregulation of mental and emotional state of the adolescents, it was also an important element of student-centered care for asthma. By becoming more optimistic, active, motivated and communicative, teenagers are more successful among their peers.

Relevance of the problem under study is explained by the beginning of a new stage in the development of Russian volunteer movement in the field of preservation of cultural monuments, which coincided with the rise of research interest in volunteering in general. The objective of this paper consists in comprehensive analysis of the modern history of restoration voluntary movement in Russia, examination of evolvement of public voluntary practices in the field of protection of the architectural heritage of the country in the context of general cultural, socio-economic, political processes that have taken place in Russia over the past decades, which have determined the specific organizational forms, content and activities of voluntary activists. The leading approach to the study of this problem is the historical method, as well as methodological principles of historicism, scientificity, objectivity, as well as sociality, integrity and fundamentality, involving the study of the historical process of volunteering in the totality of facts and sources in their logical and chronological sequence. The paper describes the main forms of volunteer practices for monument preservation, gives an overview of volunteer initiatives, as well as the efforts of charitable foundations and public organizations aimed at rescuing the cultural heritage of the country, identifies the development trajectories of restoration volunteering, and also specifies the key trends, based on which the tendency to professionalization and gradual expansion of the scope of voluntary work has been revealed. Materials of the paper can be useful not only for scientists, engaged in research of problems of social history of our country, but also for specialists from social sphere, organizers of work with youth, and also students of socio-humanitarian and pedagogical profiles.

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