predicts that the largest share of Europeans will be aged 60 to 64 years old. Therefore, the
(share of people aged over 65 per hundred people of working age) is expected to drastically increase. In 2019, the share of Europeans aged 65 and older who had long-term limitations, such as mobility limitations, reached 33 percent. Healthcare already represents an important cost for European countries. As of 2019, the
in many European countries exceeded 10 percent. Long-term residential care accounts for a non-negligible part of this healthcare. In 2018, the
amounted to 10.2 percent. In the Netherlands, long-term residential care even reached 27 percent of its healthcare expenditure. These factors will ultimately require European health care systems to redesign elderly care and especially residential care.
By 2030, Europe will lack nursing home beds
As of 2018, the
number of long-term care beds in European nursing and residential care facilities varied greatly. For instance, Sweden and the Netherlands had both over 1.3 thousand long-term care beds in nursing and residential care per hundred thousand inhabitants, while some other European countries had less than 100 beds, such as Bulgaria, Greece, or North Macedonia. By 2030, the
bed stock of European nursing home real estate is forecast to be lacking. The lack of nursing home beds was notably forecast at 320 thousand beds in Germany and 250 thousand beds in Belgium. Although European residential care will have to address these issues, to this day,
elderly care in Europe relies heavily on informal care. In 2020, an estimated 3.2 million Italian elderly care recipients potentially received informal care while home care recipients and institutional care each accounted for 75 and 35 thousand Italian recipients.
The care home market in Europe
In 2020, the
leading European care home operator in terms of facility number was the French operator Korian, followed by the British operator HC-One. With approximatively 79 thousand beds, the
leading European care home operator in terms of bed number was, however, Orpea. These three care home operators each generated revenue of around three to four billion euros in 2019. During that year, HC-One was the
leading European care home operator in terms of revenue, with a turnover of 3.8 billion euros. As European countries have different healthcare and social systems,
care home ownership in Europe is therefore diverse. Care homes in countries such as the UK or Italy are mostly private for-profit structures, while those in the Netherlands or Germany are also mostly private yet not for profit. Finally, in the Nordic countries, most care homes are publicly owned. Unsurprisingly, countries with higher privatization of care homes also show the highest costs. As of 2019, the
average monthly cost for care homes reached three thousand euros a month in the UK, as compared to 1.3 thousand in Sweden.
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