Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of MedicineProblems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine0869-866X2412-2106Joint-Stock Company Chicot155110.32687/0869-866X-2024-32-5-1006-1012НеопределенThe personnel support of the long-turn care system in the Russian FederationSafonovA LAlsafonov@fa.ruDolzenkovaYu VYVDolzhenkova@fa.ruNekipelovaD Vd.nekipelova@mail.ruSheozhevH VKVSheozhev@fa.ruThe Federal State Educational Budget Institution of Higher Education “The Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation”, 125993, Moscow, Russia271020243252704202527042025Copyright © 2025,2025<p>In Russia, over the past few years, long-term care system is developing as pilot project. Its main goal is to maintain habitual lifestyle of citizens of retirement age and the disabled who have functional impairments and who need help in household chores, sanitary hygienic procedures performance, medications intake, medical procedures execution and and physician prescriptions following in general. According to approved standard model of long-term care main sources of long-term care services are social security system, health care system, relatives and friends of service addressees. However, full-fledged and systemic implementation of program requires not only definition of these components, but also establishment of mechanism of interaction between them. For this, in most cases, elimination of normative inconsistencies impeding care and consideration of interests of elder citizens and the disabled is required. At the same time, it is necessary to foresee personnel staffing for long-term care, since this area is labor-intensive and is based on people interaction, model of person-to-person care. The problems with personnel staffing in medical and social sphere were present earlier, prior to development of long-term care system and without their elimination it is impossible to implement program in accordance with approved road-map. The training of medical specialists to working with older people, training of junior medical personnel to perform sanitary hygienic and medical procedures, provision with social and medical personnel rural areas are among tasks to be implemented. 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