A new WHO policy brief, “Long-term care financing: lessons for low- and middle-income settings”, highlights how policy makers in low- and middle-income countries – including Indonesia – can invest in long-term care (LTC) for older adults, ensuring they have access to quality health services, without financial hardship.
The policy brief focuses on decisions about population coverage of LTC, including the costs and benefits of universal, selective and mixed approaches. It highlights how in Indonesia, the National Strategy on Ageing aims to strengthen social security, long-term education, empowerment programmes and the integration of older persons into these programmes, while seeking to expand and improve LTC services at village-level clinics.
The policy brief further notes that public LTC financing in Indonesia sustains means-tested programmes that, between them, provide LTC services for over 625 000 older people, particularly those with low income and limited access to facilities and family support.
Download the policy brief here:
Long-term care financing: Lessons for low- and middle-income settings: brief 2: decisions about population coverage of long-term care