Calendar age is the age that is indicated when recording in various documents and certificates indicating the date of birth. This term is sometimes abbreviated to simply V.K.
Calendar age is an important parameter that determines a person’s social status and rights to receive benefits and allowances, to work and other privileges. It is directly related to issues of national security: those people who are old are considered potential carriers of dangerous diseases, unwanted mothers, may even be dangerous to society and are subject to selection to belong to a national minority. Also, calendar age is important in many aspects of life, for example, when obtaining a driver’s license, in matters of establishing guardianship and trusteeship, and determining the boundaries of the inheritance mass. In all these cases, the established age is important. In addition to the fact that age is the main parameter of a person’s life, it may have signs of some socialization. Thus, the aging of society causes a desire to create artificial methods of prolonging life and maintaining the social status and health of older people. Therefore, sometimes they try to inflate the age or manipulate the number of citizens of a particular age group. Therefore, it is important to be able to determine the age of a calendar group: 1. When determining age in legislation, it is necessary to indicate which method is used to establish age