POTENTIAL FOR CHANGE IN A “DESIGN – FOR – ALL” INTEGRATED LONG-TERM CARE MODEL UNDER CRISIS
Author(s)
Tsartsara S
VUB, Brussels, Greece
The new model to fund community care for chronicity is revolutionizing the way payment and provision models at community scale. The primary research question at hand is: what is the potential of an innovative funding of “Design – for – All Integrated LTC model”, to replace state and public LTC funding in EU Regions under economic crisis? The secondary research question is: How responsive is such a model to induce change in planning, organizing and funding LTC, in one pilot area of Greece? This pilot area is characterized by a reverse availability ratio of budgetary resources to the rising needs of elderly care in a co-morbidity context of an ageing population and a directly relevant ratio to the availability of resources to allow the necessary income to fund this LTC model. The current study will investigate what resources dispose the EU regions to create robust senior tourism services and products to fund a LTC model according to the needs of the pilot areas and what are the changes they should adopt, in organizational and LTC financing terms, to allow for cashable savings that would guarantee Return on Investment (RoI) and sustainability of the LTC provision at community level. The study will assess the assets and needs for LTC in the selected Greek region and to construct a model that could sustainably finance LTC provision in the pilot area, via income generation from local economic growth that would be reinvested to fund LTC provision and will observe the responsiveness of this model and how change in healthcare organization and funding is perceived by local authorities and how susceptible they are to that change. A large part of this exercise would be the mentality shift induced to the local actors to understand and endorse innovative funding in long term care run by own resources and not state funded
Conference/Value in Health Info
2018-11, ISPOR Europe 2018, Barcelona, Spain
Value in Health, Vol. 21, S3 (October 2018)
Code
PCP38
Topic
Health Policy & Regulatory
Disease
Geriatrics, Mental Health, Multiple Diseases, Musculoskeletal Disorders