Providing care for older parents or parents-in-law significantly reduces the probability of employment and annual earnings, particularly among women and intensive caregivers, which remains the most prevalent...
Compared to other regions, Africa’s population is considerably younger. Within Africa, the number of older people is projected to increase at a similarly rapid pace across all subregions from 2022 to 2050...
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are one of the major health and development challenges of our time, impacting not only higher income countries, but increasingly lower income ones as well. It is important...
This document illustrates the application of the Long-Term Care Assessment Toolkit to Indonesia. The primary objective of this example was to test and refine the toolkit, and it does not offer a comprehensive...
This document illustrates the application of the Long-Term Care Assessment Toolkit to Denmark. The primary objective of this example was to test and refine the toolkit, and it does not offer a comprehensive...
The objective of this toolkit is to provide a set of guiding questions to collect data for a comprehensive description of an LTC landscape in any country. Given the worldwide aging, the World Bank's support...
The objectives of the report are: informal (unpaid) long-term care (LTC) by family and friends is the main form of caregiving in Indonesia. Only 1 out of 20 adults who need care rely on paid care in the...
The Long-Term Care (LTC) assessment toolkit is a guide for a systematic and exhaustive assessment of LTC demand and supply in a country.
This document uses the World Bank’s Long-term Care Assessment Toolkit as a basis for compiling key information, data and analysis of Long-Term Care needs, circumstances, and programs in the Republic of...
The Long-Term Care (LTC) assessment toolkit is a guide for a systematic and exhaustive assessment of LTC demand and supply in a country.
The Long-Term Care (LTC) assessment toolkit is a guide for a systematic and exhaustive assessment of LTC demand and supply in a country.
The Long-Term Care (LTC) assessment toolkit is a guide for a systematic and exhaustive assessment of LTC demand and supply in a country.
This policy note assesses Croatia’s readiness for increased longevity. It focuses on health and social care services for the elderly, identifying critical gaps, or open questions, in the key areas of services...
This note presents an international picture of measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic specifically for the elderly living residential facilities as a particularly vulnerable setting. For this purpose...
Starting in 2009, in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, Greece underwent a major sovereign debt crisis that led to a sharp economic contraction followed by years of stagnation. The crisis was...
Strong growth, and past reforms in health and social spending in Slovakia, have helped lower the fiscal deficit to below one percent of GDP in 2018. At the same time, following consecutive years of favorable...
The World Bank report "Options for Aged Care in China," completed in FY18, describes the determinants of demand for aged care and identifies key building blocks for developing a sustainable, equitable...
Poland is aging. In another three decades, more than half of the country's population will be over50.7 years old, 10.4 years more than the current median age of 40.3 years. The share ofindividuals 65 years...