What is the procedure for providing social services to the elderly?

Elderly people who need constant assistance are entitled to social services.

The procedure for providing social services to such persons is as follows:

1. an elderly person must submit a written application to the department of labor and social protection of the population at the place of residence;

2. within three days, the administration sends a request to the health care institution at the person's place of residence in order to obtain a medical opinion on the pensioner's inability to provide care on his own;

3. within 10 days, the hospital provides a medical opinion to the management, which makes a decision within three days - to provide social services or not;

4. if a decision has been made to provide an elderly person with social services, the labor and social protection department sends the person's application together with a medical report to the territorial center;

5. after that, the center draws up a map of the individual needs of a person, which will be provided by a social security worker.