Features of Providing Medical Care to Elderly and Senile Citizens

Abstract

Currently, the state policy in the field of organization of medical care for elderly citizens is aimed at ensuring its quality, creating a system for monitoring the quality and volume of medical and diagnostic measures, further development of medical examination, prevention and rehabilitation, timely consultations of patients undergoing inpatient treatment, continuity in the treatment of patients at inpatient and outpatient stages. The article analyzes the necessary actions of doctors during a comprehensive geriatric examination. The characteristic symptoms and signs of senile asthenia, as well as its relationship with age-related diseases, are described.