The Economic Benefit of Promoting Healthy Ageing and Community Care

Without a stronger focus on healthy ageing population ageing will have a strong impact on health and long-term care expenditures. This report discusses how a stronger focus on preventive interventions and reablement helps promote healthy ageing. It highlights that promoting healthcare closer to people and more integrated care are cost-effective interventions for older people. Appropriate and adapted housing and sufficiently affordable home care are also necessary to ensure that people can age well at home. Yet for some older adults social isolation calls for innovative community solutions to be developed such as expanding day care and communal living with services.