Methods of assessing the health and social status of elderly disabled persons

Abstract

Execution of documentation is an essential component of the vocational work of experts engaged in the provision of medical and social assistance to the disabled, from the clinical diagnostic to rehabilitation. In the article there is presented the questionnaire of the assessment of health and social status of the elderly disabled person, which allows to reflect the existence of violations of the functions and limitations of life activity, the degree of their severity, needs in certain types of rehabilitation, including with the use of technical means of compensation of disturbedfunctions. This type of documentation allows to reduce (speed up) the time on the execution and to increase the level of the vocational competence of the professionals engaged in medical and social activities as well in health institutions as social protection institutions. With properfilling ofpreprinted forms (layout, template) it will be received medical and social portrait ofa disabled elderly person. Questionnaire can also be used in execution ofscientific research.

Keywords

disabled elderly person / questionnaire / evaluation of the medical and social status

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