The goal is to analyze the main sources of health maintenance among elderly people who continue working after retirement. Material and methods. Analysis of the main sources of health maintenance among elderly people is based on the results of sociological research by means of semi-structured interview, conducted in 2014 in Saratov city. The sample included 8 respondents aged 55-65 years who continue working after their retirement. Results. The main sources of health maintenance among working pensioners include such preventive measures as moderate physical exercise, rational nutrition, folk medicine, hardening, and regular medical examinations. It was revealed that in the case of self-prevention of chronic diseases worsening elderly persons rely on previous doctors' prescriptions, drugs instructions, and medical literature. Conclusion. The data obtained in this research allow to make the conclusion that along with demand for preventive measures of health maintenance among working pensioners, there is an expansion of self-medication practice. This fact could be explained by a decrease of confidence in primary health care services, low availability of paid medical services.
Chernyshkova Е.М., Andriyanova Е.А., Repin V.F., Chernyshkov D.V. Источники поддержания здоровья в интерпретациях представителей пожилого возраста // Saratov Journal of Medical Scientific Research, Vol. 11, Issue 1, 2015, pp. 58-61

Confidentiality as the component of an interpersonal "patient — medical practitioner" contact formation can be considered as a corner stone of geriatric practice. Major psychological pitfalls of geriatric practice have been reviewed. The main issue of the paper is psychological substantiation of treatment and prevention of elderly.
Nazarov M.l., Denisova I.P., Yuanov А.А. Psychological background of prevention and treatment in geriatrics // Saratov Journal of Medical Scientific Research, Vol. 11, Issue 1, 2015, pp. 56-58

The present review concerns the elderly persons' health preservation and deals with theoretical approaches to the study of this problem. It was revealed that there is an imbalance between basic approaches in favor of medicinal side in the study of health preservation of older age group. The necessity for interdisciplinary problem solving in regard to elderly persons' health preservation was substantiated in categorical field of sociology of medicine.
Arstangaliyeva Z.Zh., Chernyshkova Е.М., Andriyanov S.V. Health preservation of elderly persons as the problem of sociology of medicine // Saratov Journal of Medical Scientific Research, Vol. 10, Issue 4, 2014, pp. 670-674

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C.C. Azodo, O. Ehigiator, A.O. Ehizele, O. Ololo, Ashish Runthala, Amit Kumar Singh, Risqa Rina Darwita, Iwany Amalliah, Alphonsus N. Onyiriuka, Zohair Jamil Gazzaz, Khalid Obeid Dhafar, Abdul Fatah Sindy, Mian Usman Farooq, Shakeel Ahmad Mian, S.R. Kulkarni, К.Р. Ravindra, С. Dhume, P.V. Rataboli, E. Rodrigues, E.E. Rodrigues, Georgi Tomov, L.C. De Castro Rossi, I. Dalben, S.C. Mangini Bocchi, Elena V. Chernyshkova Full English article from Saratov Journal of Medical Scienific Research (2010-2011 years) // Russian Open Medical Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2012, pp. 106-0