Implementation Of The Geriatric Approach In Primary Health Care Through The Use Of Distance Education Technologies

Abstract

Age-associated syndromes of older persons together provide the functional activity of an elderly person, their objectification is focused on specific methods of examination adopted in geriatrics.
The development of medical and social programs within the framework of the primary health care system that allow successfully coping with these syndromes makes it possible to achieve the ultimate goal of geriatric care – to maintain the highest possible quality of life for an elderly and senile person.
Unfortunately, in our country, in relation to the geriatric contingent of patients, the traditional, general therapeutic approach is maintained, which consists in relieving individual symptoms of pathology by etiopathogenetic or symptomatic effects, in connection with which this article considers the use of distance educational technologies for the elderly, which contribute to the prolongation of their active longevity