[The medical social technology of health preservation of elderly population in conditions of self-isolation].

In Moscow (as of January 1, 2020), the number of population made up to 12,678,079, and out of them the elderly population made up to 2.8 million. Up to the end of 2020, the number of the elderly will reach 3.3 million requiring implementation of corresponding preventive measures due to mass prevalence of coronavirus infection. The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that despite restructuring of functioning of industry, social security and health care, quarantine and self-isolation occurred to be exactly the effective measures. The self-isolation regimen also revealed aggravation of harmful effects of stress factors, hypodynamia, hypooxygenation and decreasing of immunological resistance. It is especially important to organize leisure activities and to create the most comfortable conditions for isolated living of the elderly as most susceptible to infection. The experience demonstrated that properly chosen set of activities during self-isolation regimen both disciplines and permits to apply surplus of free time to intensify health potential and to consolidate family relationships.

[The analysis of instruments of evaluation of quality of life of patients of elderly age in view of palliative medicine].

In quality of life research, it is very important to understand the concept and methodology of its implementation. The quality of life study should be organized in accordance with standard generally accepted requirements. In order to obtain comparable data and to apply it in clinical practice, standard quality of life assessment tools should be implemented. The questionnaires are common as the tools assessing quality of life. In the United States and Europe, as well as in Russia, special centers are organized to develop such questionnaires. There are General questionnaires that can be used to assess quality of life in case of various diseases and special questionnaires targeted to specific group of diseases. Currently, more than 400 special questionnaires are used in practice. In Russia, due to urgency of increasing propagation of socially significant non-communicable diseases, especially in elderly population, particular attention is focused on research in the area of quality of life in field of palliative medicine, assigned to alleviate suffering of incurable patient. Its main goal is to maintain optimal quality of life of patient.