Table 2. Need, access, workforce, and expenditure of long-term care for older adults for the EU population and selected European countries in 2019 (5).
| Item | EU-27 | BE | DE | ES | FR | IT | NL |
| Note: A1 = The percentage of population aged 65 years and over requiring long-term care. B1 = The percentage of population aged 65 years and over receiving care in long-term care facilities. B2 = The percentage of population aged 65 years and over receiving care at home. B3 = The percentage of population aged 65 years and over receiving long-term care cash benefits. B4 = The percentage of population aged 65 years and over in need of long-term care with a lack of assistance in personal care or household tasks. B5 = The percentage of population aged 65 years and over who have used home care services for personal needs in the past 12 months. B6 = The percentage of population aged 65 years and over in need of long-term care, but not using (more) professional home care services due to the financial reason. B7 = The percentage of population aged 65 years and over in need of long-term care, but not using (more) professional home care services because the services needed are not available. B8 = Beds for long-term care per 100,000 residents. C1 = Number of long-term care (formal care) workforce per 100 older adults aged 65 years and over. C2 = The percentage of population providing informal care, which is the proportion of respondents who provide care or assistance to one or more individuals requiring assistance due to long-term physical or mental illness, physical weakness, or old age. Only unpaid, volunteer assistance is considered. C3 = The percentage of informal carers providing more than 20 hours informal care per week. D1 = Public long-term care expenditure as % of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2019. D2 = Public long-term care expenditure as % of GDP projected for 2030. D3 = Public long-term care expenditure as % of GDP projected for 2050. D4 = Public expenditure on institutional care as % of total public long-term care expenditure. D5 = Public expenditure on home care as % of total public long-term care expenditure. D6 = Public expenditure on cash benefits as % of total public long-term care expenditure. Abbreviation: BE=Belgium; DE=Germany; ES=Spain; FR=France; IT=Italy; NL=The Netherlands; EU-27=European Union with 27 Member States; NA indicates that data were unavailable. * Indicates that the data came from 2014. † Indicates that the data came from 2016. | |||||||
| Need of long-term care | |||||||
| A1 | 27.3* | 29.9 | 15.2* | 28.8 | 21.5 | 28.7 | 26.9 |
| Access to long-term care | |||||||
| B1 | 3.6 | 6.2 | 4.3 | 1.2 | 4.9 | 3.2 | 5.6 |
| B2 | 5.8 | 15.7 | 3.6 | 3.9 | 6.2 | 4.7 | 19.1 |
| B3 | 8.8 | 7.8 | 11.3 | 4.4 | 0 | 10.9 | 1.2 |
| B4 | 51.8* | NA | 72.1* | 47.9 | 38.7 | 44.2 | 24.5 |
| B5 | 11.0* | 25.1 | 6.3* | 10.8 | 15.1 | 9.5 | 18.0 |
| B6 | 35.7† | 24.4 | 19.2† | 54.1 | 16.4 | 36.9 | 30.3† |
| B7 | 9.7† | 5.8 | 3.8† | 7.3 | 3.6 | 30.3 | 8.3† |
| B8 | NA | 1276.6 | 1152.2 | 830.3 | 981.5 | 415.8 | 1370.7 |
| Long-term care workforce | |||||||
| C1 | 3.8† | 4.8† | 5.1† | 4.5† | 2.3† | 1.9† | 8.0† |
| C2 | 10.3† | 11.6† | 6.8† | 11.5† | 14.1† | 5.8† | 36.7† |
| C3 | 22.2† | 15.0† | 15.0† | 52.9† | 10.5† | 40.5† | 3.3† |
| Public long-term care expenditure as the percentage of GDP | |||||||
| D1 | 1.7 | 2.2 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 1.9 | 1.7 | 3.7 |
| D2 | 2.1 | 2.7 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 2.3 | 2.0 | 4.7 |
| D3 | 3.4 | 4.4 | 2.8 | 2.1 | 3.7 | 3.1 | 6.7 |
| D4 | 48.1 | 62.5 | 35.7 | 50.2 | 69.6 | 28.2 | 51.0 |
| D5 | 25.5 | 26.8 | 23.5 | 25.9 | 24.8 | 19.5 | 16.4 |
| D6 | 26.4 | 10.7 | 40.8 | 23.9 | 5.6 | 52.3 | 32.6 |