The activities of in-patients social service institutions for elderly age and disabled citizens in the Russian Federation
The article analyzes normative legal documents regulating the work of in-patient social service institutions for elderly age and disabled citizens. The main indexes of the activity of in-patient social service institutions for elderly age and disabled citizens in the Russian Federation for 2002-2016 have been studied (according to the data from Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation). For 15 years, the number of in-patient social service institutions increased by 11,6%, the number of beds by 8,5%, the number of residents is 13,4%. The study determined the rate of growth of boarding houses of the general type, psychoneurological boarding, houses of mercy, gerontological and social-improving centers for elderly age and disabled citizens. The number of elderly and disabled on the waiting lists for admission to in-patient institutions of social service decreased by 29,5%. At the same time, there is an increase in the proportion of elderly age and disabled citizens being on the waiting list to be placed in these institutions for more than one year, from 33,1 to 45,0%.