RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Patterns of Long Term Care in 29 European countries: evidence from an exploratory study
Background: The challenges posed by the rapidly ageing population, and the increased preponderance of disabled people in this group, coupled with the rising level of public expenditure required to service the complex organization of long term care (LTC) delivery are causing increased pressure on LTC...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.287.2562 2023-05-15T16:50:57+02:00 RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Patterns of Long Term Care in 29 European countries: evidence from an exploratory study Gianfranco Damiani Valentina Farelli Angela Anselmi Lorella Sicuro Ro Solipaca Ra Burgio Domenica Fioredistella Iezzi Walter Ricciardi The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/zip http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.287.2562 en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.287.2562 Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/9c/fd/BMC_Health_Serv_Res_2011_Nov_18_11_316.tar.gz text ftciteseerx 2016-01-07T21:20:49Z Background: The challenges posed by the rapidly ageing population, and the increased preponderance of disabled people in this group, coupled with the rising level of public expenditure required to service the complex organization of long term care (LTC) delivery are causing increased pressure on LTC systems in Europe. A pan-European survey was carried out to evaluate whether patterns of LTC can be identified across Europe and what are the trends of the countries along them. Methods: An ecological study was conducted on the 27 EU Member States plus Norway and Iceland, referring to the period 2003-2007. Several variables related to organizational features, elderly needs and expenditure were drawn from OECD Health Data and the Eurostat Statistics database and combined using Multiple Factor Analysis (MFA). Results: Two global Principal Components were taken into consideration given that their expressed total variance was greater than 60%. They were interpreted according to the higher (more than 0.5) positive or negative correlation coefficients between them and the original variables; thus patterns of LTC were identified. High alignment between old age related expenditure and elderly needs characterizes Nordic and Western European countries, the former also having a higher level of formal care than the latter. Mediterranean as well as Central and South Eastern European countries show lower alignment between old age related expenditure and elderly needs Text Iceland Unknown Norway |
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Background: The challenges posed by the rapidly ageing population, and the increased preponderance of disabled people in this group, coupled with the rising level of public expenditure required to service the complex organization of long term care (LTC) delivery are causing increased pressure on LTC systems in Europe. A pan-European survey was carried out to evaluate whether patterns of LTC can be identified across Europe and what are the trends of the countries along them. Methods: An ecological study was conducted on the 27 EU Member States plus Norway and Iceland, referring to the period 2003-2007. Several variables related to organizational features, elderly needs and expenditure were drawn from OECD Health Data and the Eurostat Statistics database and combined using Multiple Factor Analysis (MFA). Results: Two global Principal Components were taken into consideration given that their expressed total variance was greater than 60%. They were interpreted according to the higher (more than 0.5) positive or negative correlation coefficients between them and the original variables; thus patterns of LTC were identified. High alignment between old age related expenditure and elderly needs characterizes Nordic and Western European countries, the former also having a higher level of formal care than the latter. Mediterranean as well as Central and South Eastern European countries show lower alignment between old age related expenditure and elderly needs |
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RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Patterns of Long Term Care in 29 European countries: evidence from an exploratory study |
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RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Patterns of Long Term Care in 29 European countries: evidence from an exploratory study |
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RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Patterns of Long Term Care in 29 European countries: evidence from an exploratory study |
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