Social security of the elderly. Challenges of the post-pandemic reality

Abstract

Progressive demographic transformations and their consequences including the increasing risk of the lack of replacement of generations, family and institutional deficits in fulfilling of the caring and protective functions – create an urgent need to resume the social discourse on creating the social security of the 60+ generation. The pandemic time brought many additional changes, both in social behaviour and in the catalogue of individual needs. It revealed new challenges and axiological priorities, requiring a broader understanding of the nature of social policy towards the third generation.