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In its report entitled"Growing Old with Dignity" Caritas Europa warns that the EU's long-term care system is insufficient“Population ageing is the defining global trend of our time,” said Shannon Pfohman, Policy and Advocacy Director for Caritas Europa, noting that the demand for long-term care is soaring, and public spending is not keeping pace with the demand.
The organization, she added, also does advocacy on the EU Care Strategy and the Council's Recommendation on long-term care.“The crux of the issue now is really what will the member states do at the national level, because it's now in their hands to follow up on the Council Recommendation and decide if, and how, they will reform their long-term care systems,” she said.Caritas Europa, Pfohman said, has identified 15 diverse key Recommendations.
She said one of the most important findings from the research shows that increasingly more elderly people, who are of low income, “cannot cover their costs for care at all.” Many care workers emigrate to rich countries where their skills are in demand, so one of the big concerns of many of Eastern European members, she said, is that there are not enough personnel in their countries “because as soon as they train them and get them skilled up to be a care worker, they migrate to richer Western European countries like Austria, Germany, or Switzerland.
“That is a common thread throughout this publication as well, because so many of the care workers who are employed in this sector are not being valued the way they should be,” she said.
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