🇷🇺 Russia Ageing, Long-Term Care & Community Support Knowledge Hub

Russia faces significant demographic and social care challenges as population ageing, regional inequalities, workforce pressures and changing family circumstances increase demand for sustainable long-term care and community support. Its social care system operates through a combination of federal legislation, regional authorities, public social service organisations, healthcare providers, non-governmental organisations, private providers, families and communities. The first collection within this Knowledge Hub explores Russia Ageing, Long-Term Care & Community Support, with additional specialist collections being introduced as the library expands.

Russia’s social care arrangements reflect the country’s distinctive demographic, geographic, economic and institutional circumstances. The scale of its territory, differences in regional resources, the importance of family caregiving and the relationship between institutional and community-based provision create significant challenges for equitable access and service sustainability. These include enabling older people to remain at home, strengthening support for disabled people, developing alternatives to institutional care, improving coordination between health and social services, addressing workforce shortages and ensuring that rural and remote communities can access appropriate support. Russia therefore provides an important subject for international analysis by providers, commissioners, policymakers, researchers and social care system leaders.

This Knowledge Hub examines Russia’s approach to population ageing, long-term care governance and financing, federal and regional social services, home and community support, residential and institutional care, family caregiving, dementia, disability, independent living, autism and learning disability support, social rehabilitation, mental health, workforce development, quality assurance, safeguarding, prevention, integrated care, digitalisation, assistive technology, rural inequalities and system reform. It forms part of the interconnected international knowledge library across Impact Guru and Impact Insights Hub, supporting comparison between different care systems without assuming that one national model can simply be transferred to another.

As the collection develops, articles will explore how federal policy, regional government, health and social care services, providers, families, communities, technology, research and funding arrangements interact. Particular attention will be given to Russia’s developing long-term care arrangements, the balance between institutional and community-based provision, the sustainability of family caregiving, regional disparities in service access, workforce capacity, disability inclusion, care quality, prevention and the future organisation of social services. The aim is to create a practical, evidence-informed resource for understanding Russia’s evolving social care system and identifying lessons that may be relevant internationally, while recognising differences in legal frameworks, resources, service structures and social conditions.

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