Looking for money for social care / day

Long -term social care services are needed for children and adults with functional disabilities and retirement age. Currently, the country has spent 0.5% of GDP for this purpose, but costs are growing, which affects the availability and quality of these services.

Currently, the Ministry of Welfare (LM) has been evaluated On long -term social care financing models and proposals to implement a sustainable funding modelwhich offers four models, providing different sources of money in this area. The authors of the study tend to support the determination of social insurance for all workers and divert these funds to nursing homes and care at their place of residence, including day centers, group homes and For a moment of respite.

Costs increase twice

Currently, Latvia allocates 0.5% of GDP for this purpose, with the plan to raise this bar to 0.8% by 2070. Meanwhile, the situation in EU countries is different, for example, in the Netherlands it is 3.8%, in Sweden – 3.2%, but also less than in Latvia – Estonia (0.4%), Romania (0.3%), Cyprus (0.2%) and Greece (0.1%). The population is shrinking, the public is aging, and as the number of seniors increases, but as the number of children decreases, one has to look for more sustainable long -term care patterns than the current ones. Population statistics speak for itself – from 2018 to 2023, the population in Latvia decreased by 2.7%in total, and the minuses are in all regions except Pieriga, and the senior