Table 2.

Sociodemographic data, availability, placement capacity, and diversity of psychogeriatric services in major socioeconomic regions of Southern Balkans.

	Albania	Bulgaria		Greece				North Macedonia
		South-Western and South-Central Bulgaria	Northern and Eastern Bulgaria	Northern Greece	Central Greece	Attica	Aegean islands and Crete
NUTS1 code	AL0	BG4	BG3	EL5	EL6	EL3	EL4	MK0
Population aged 65 and over	390364	782374	698112	702406	638840	766316	229990	284316
% of residents aged 65 and over	13.6	22.2	19.8	22.8	23.5	20.4	19.4	13.7
Old dependency ratio	19.7	35	30	36.2	37.6	31.4	30.2	19.5
% of residents aged 65 and over with self-perception of their health as good or very good		24		40.5				29.3
Availability of BSICs	0	2	1	4	2	2	0	4
BSICs availability per 100k elderly inhabitants	0	0.25	0.14	0.57	0.31	0.26	0	1.41
Availability of MTCs	0	4	3	6	3	6	0	8
MTCs availability per 100 k elderly inhabitants	0	0.51	0.43	0.85	0.47	0.78	0	2.81
Αvailability of outpatient psychogeriatric services in hours/week	0	80	40	80	16	24	0	52
Availability of outpatient psychogeriatric services in hours/week per 100k elderly inhabitants	0	10.23	5.73	11.40	2.50	3.13	0	18.29
Placement capacity	0	80	25	6	0	8	0	127
Placement capacity per 100 k elderly inhabitants	0	10.23	3.58	0.86	0	1.04	0	44.67

NUTS1 code: Code of a major socioeconomic region of the studied countries according to the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics; Old-age dependency ratio: This indicator is the ratio between the number of persons aged 65 and over (age when they are generally economically inactive) and the number of persons aged between 15 and 64. The value is expressed per 100 persons of working age (15–64).

Abbreviations: BSIC, Basic stable input of care, being the temporally and organizationally stable minimal unit providing coordinated care to a discrete target group of health consumers; MTC, Main type of care, being the descriptor of the basic activity carried out in one BSIC; Placement capacity.

Source: eurostat.