[Actual problems of palliative care in geriatric practice in Almaty.]

The study design was a transversal single-sample cross-section randomized study. In total, 1 898 people over 60 years of age living in Almaty were interviewed on the questionnaire to study their needs for palliative and medical and social care. Study of the need with the definition of functional states of older age (according to WHO) in medical and social care and palliative care in Almaty using SPSS IBM Statistics version 23.0 found that geriatric patients with non-oncological pathology have different characteristics of medical and social needs, which require interagency cooperation. The solution of the problem can be achieved by creating a register of elderly patients at the level of primary care to provide palliative care at home with the help of mobile and multidisciplinary teams, which include health workers, psychologists, social workers.