Improvement of social policy towards the disabled in the Russian Federation

Abstract

The article is devoted to: the issues of improvement of social policy towards the disabled; the analysis of different approaches to the assessment of their quality of life; characteristic of the actual state of things on the example of program "Accessible environment" operating in Russia (federal level) and in the Republic of Tatarstan (regional level); the problems of poverty of persons with special abilities and proposals for its overcoming by the application of techniques of social and professional rehabilitation for the disabled.