[On medical and social work in the complex treatment of senile age patients with chronic heart insufficiency]

The section of medical-social work was entered for the first time into National Recommendations VNOC and OSSN on diagnostics and treatment of chronic heart failure, the second revision. The social help is especially important for persons of senile age and long-livers. It is expedient to study to what extent the employees of social service are ready to participate in the complex observation and treatment of these patients. Interrogation of 274 workers of the complex centers for in-home social service has been worked out. The level of knowledge on matters of conducting persons of senile age with chronic heart failure proved to be low. Majority respondents have not shown any readiness to join medical-social programs carried out by public health institutions.