NDI Policy Brief 14: Healthy ageing policy in Russia needs to consider gender, age, and territory
The Russian government has adopted various national policies and programs in the last decade in response to population ageing in the country. We analyzed the targets and actions of two ongoing healthy ageing policies, and how their effectiveness could be improved.
We suggest the national (Federal) level authorities to take the following recommendations into account:
- Recommendation 1: To separate program targets and indicators by gender, and to develop different actions for men and women on the national level, taking into account regional differences in demographics across the Russian Federation.
- Recommendation 2: To separate program targets and indicators by age between the younger and older elderly, and to tailor different supportive activities for each sub-group in the highly heterogeneous category of older population.
- Recommendation 3: To create a mechanism for collaboration between the social service and health care sectors to enable the development of a comprehensive and long-term care system. In this development work it is important to analyze best practices from the international experience, and to adapt them to the Russian context.
- Recommendation 4: To take the urban-rural dimension and the urbanization process into account in the program design. Many good practices and successful actions have been developed in large cities, and therefore need to be carefully analyzed to adapt them to the conditions of remote sparsely populated and rural territories in Russia.
Authors:
Anastasia Emelyanova, University of Oulu, Finland
Elena Golubeva, Northern Arctic Federal University, Arkhangesk, Russia
This policy brief was written as a part of the NDI Policy Brief Training held in October 2020.
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