Effective social help for elderly people: importance of long-term medical assistance at home
Due to the steady aging of the population the social situation to need for reforms has been identified, including a starting a state system of long-term medical care and monitoring at home for patients 65 years and over in Russia last years. The article includes the role, social significance and status for implementation of home medical patronage according the main tasks and priorities towards a decade of healthy ageing of WHO.The provision of home-based primary care in the framework of social protection for elderlies provides to use a typing system for organize targeted assistance for the seniors and persons with disabilities in Russia. By analogy, typing of patients is envisaged and is being developed for conducting medical home nursing.The typing model for long-term medical support of old patients has their own characteristics, from the risk factors and the “philosophical approach” through the end of the multidisciplinary medical team formation and the need for vaccination.