Who Will Care? Elderly Care Homes in Czechia in the Context of Demographic Ageing

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

čeština

Original language name

Kdo se postará? Domovy pro seniory v Česku v kontextu demografického stárnutí

Original language description

One important consequence of demographic ageing is the need to ensure adequate and quality care for the elderly. The aim of the article is to outline the main challenges concerning the current state of elderly care in Czechia, focusing on elderly care homes, since this form of social care is used most by the elderly population. The capacity of elderly care homes is already insufficient, and care providers are not planning to increase the number of places. In the last decade or so, the occupancy rate of elderly care homes has been at 100% and the number of applicants who are rejected is growing each year. There were on average 53 people aged 65+ and 11 people aged 80+ per one place in the elderly care homes, but this share is growing as is the gap between the number of beds available and the number of beds required. Model projections up to 2050 will be used to highlight what the potential consequences might be for society if elderly care homes do not increase their current capacity in the short to medium term. If the current ratio of care home capacity to size of the population aged 65 and over is to remain the same, the number of beds needs to increase by 26% to the year 2030 and by 59% to the year 2050.

Czech name

Kdo se postará? Domovy pro seniory v Česku v kontextu demografického stárnutí

Czech description

One important consequence of demographic ageing is the need to ensure adequate and quality care for the elderly. The aim of the article is to outline the main challenges concerning the current state of elderly care in Czechia, focusing on elderly care homes, since this form of social care is used most by the elderly population. The capacity of elderly care homes is already insufficient, and care providers are not planning to increase the number of places. In the last decade or so, the occupancy rate of elderly care homes has been at 100% and the number of applicants who are rejected is growing each year. There were on average 53 people aged 65+ and 11 people aged 80+ per one place in the elderly care homes, but this share is growing as is the gap between the number of beds available and the number of beds required. Model projections up to 2050 will be used to highlight what the potential consequences might be for society if elderly care homes do not increase their current capacity in the short to medium term. If the current ratio of care home capacity to size of the population aged 65 and over is to remain the same, the number of beds needs to increase by 26% to the year 2030 and by 59% to the year 2050.

Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50402 - Demography

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Demografie

ISSN

0011-8265

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

60

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

248-265

UT code for WoS article

000448254700007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85056590262