[Implementation of advanced social practices based on innovative gerontotechnologies in the system of long-term care...

From 2017 to the present a scientific project «The use of dermatoprotectors to improve the quality of life of geriatric patients with age-associated xerosis (AAX)» has been realized as part of a typical model of a long-term care system in order to introduce the innovative gerontotechnologies as advanced social practices in further optimization of social and medical care for elderly and senile patients in Leningrad Region. The article presents the results of a comparative analysis of the effectiveness of the dermatoprotectors application in the improvement of the quality of life, prevention and correction of AAX. The AAX clinical manifestations have been studied before and after the emollients use. The cohort under study has included geriatric patients with senile asthenia from seven institutions of social protection of the Leningrad Region. In the foreign literature, such patients are called «fragile». The data thus obtained indicate that AAX as a manifestation of skin «fragility» during aging can be considered as a component of the geriatric syndrome of senile asthenia in patients of older age groups. The development of skin «fragility» significantly reduces the quality of life of geriatric patients and requires timely prevention and correction with adequately selected dermatoprotectors.