By the way the world of the elderly day, marked on Thursday, the International Labour Organization (ILO) published the study "Long-term care protection for older persons: A review of coverage deficits in 46 countries" (continued protection to elderly: a cover deficit revision in 46 countries).
The work indicates that the world needed are 13.6 million workers to be universal coverage in terms of continuing care to people aged 65 and over.
In Europe, Portugal has the lowest rates according to the tables included in the study and that include many of the countries (not all are included in every frame of the study): 0.4 formal workers for every 100 seniors. France has 1.1, Spain 2.9, the Netherlands and Norway 17.1 7.3.
These figures mean that, says the study, even developed European countries such as Ireland, France, Slovakia and Portugal, between 56.6 and 90.4 percent of people over 65 do not have access to a continuum of quality services lack of workers in this area. The 90.4, the highest number, refer to Portugal.
The figures indicate that following the Portugal arise France and Slovakia, where 73.5% of seniors do not have quality support, followed by Ireland (56.6), the Czech Republic (49.4) and Germany (22.9). Estonia, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland the coverage rate is 100 percent.
The lack of protection also see themselves as the percentage of GDP (Gross Domestic Product) for the care of the elderly. Portugal, which has the highest percentage of the world's elderly, devotes 0.1 of GDP, the lowest value of the represented European countries, followed by Estonia with 0.2, the Czech Republic with 0.3, and Spain with 0.5. On the other side are the Netherlands and Denmark, which spend 2.3 and 2.2 of GDP to the protection of the elderly.
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