TY JOUR TI Анализ особенностей и проблем развития паллиативной гериатрической помощи KW this article presents the basic problems of the development of palliative geriatric care today as well as the role and features of a geriatric practice. Materials and methods of this study are a literature review of the on the development of palliative care. Results. The author describes the peculiarities of palliative care in geriatrics KW basic problems and ways of its development. Different states have different nature of the symptoms KW the trajectory of the disease KW the existence and characteristics of the needs of elderly patients and their families in maintaining the quality of life. In geriatrics it is necessary to consider polymorbic background and involutive changes of the organism as a whole in the provision of palliative care. Help at home has several advantages over help in the hospital. The author has analyzed the problems of development of professional education in historical perspective and concluded that in the country KW unfortunately KW there is no developed system of professional education on palliative care to the patients of the senior age group. This in itself is a contradiction-on the background of demographic ageing KW when there is a great need for this kind of assistance to persons of elderly and senile age with severe pathologies with severe functional deficits and total dependency on outsiders KW combined with the aging of organs and systems. Today there is a need to talk about some kind of specialized palliative care – palliative geriatrics. JO Вестник новых медицинских технологий. Электронный журнал AU Пономарева, И.П. PY 2015 IS 9 PB Общество с ограниченной ответственностью «Научно-издательский центр ИНФРА-М»