THE STATE OF GERIATRIC CARE IN THE KURSK REGION: PROBLEMS OF FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS
The article presents the main promising directions for the development of geriatric care for the elderly population implemented in the Kursk region thanks to the efforts of the Polyclinic Therapy and General Practice Department of the Kursk State Medical University, the Kursk Branch of the Gerontological Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the team of the Kursk Local Center of the Global Aging Network for the International Association Gerontology and geriatrics, consisting in the professional retraining of specialists for working with the elderly population, providing quality advisory services to specialists of outpatient medical institutions, organizing scientiﬁc and practical conferences devoted to the discussion of urgent problems of gerontology and geriatrics, effective cooperation with the service of social protection of the population. The important role of training qualiﬁed medical staff, conducting modern scientiﬁc research, introducing their results into healthcare practice, the need to organize additional education for the elderly, involving them in performing volunteer activities to maintain a functional socially-demanded activity, and quality of life are emphasized.