“…Nowadays, the issues related to the elderly and disabled are actively discussed in modern Russian scientific literature: the analysis of social adaptation mechanisms (Kornilov, 2011;Shanina, 2015); the features of the socio-psychological problems of elderly and people with disabilities living in boarding schools (Barsukov, 2016.;Kiseleva & Bobik, 2015); the use of social therapy methods with these categories of clients (Volkova, Naberushkina, Bystriantsev, Baharev, Nadutkina & Sadovski, 2016); the organization of free time as a factor of their socio-cultural adaptation process (Elyutina & Chernyshkova, 2010); the identification factors, contributing/impeding to the social integration of individuals into the socio-cultural environment (Volkova, Chefonova, Mozgovaya, Besschetnova, Zhirov, & Nadutkina, 2017).…”