[Psychological adaptation of older workers to occupational conditions].

As a result of ergometric investigation of labour activity of 187 workers of mass professions (machine-operators, metal craftsmen, fitters), involved in physical labour of medium heaviness, the following age patterns in behavioral self-regulation of activity were detected in people of 20-79 years of age: reduction of the occupation in the major jobs and increase in the occupation in the auxiliary, less tense jobs, decrease in the density of work time, changing in the activity strategy, reduction of the duration of continuous work and increase of the duration of the subsequent rest, dividing of the alloted volume of work into parts. Physiological rationalization of labour of older workers based on the established patterns of their behavioral adaptation to labour is a sufficiently effective measure for labour rehabilitation and lengthening of the period of active life.