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vention and Rehabilitation in the context of Long-Term Care psihologija / sociala in zdravje starejših odraslih | psychology / social and health of the elderly
(LTC) in Slovenia
Tatjana Pokrajac
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Introduction. Our work is a more extensive overview of the state of long-term
care in Slovenia, describing existing social and health care, and preventive and
rehabilitation services in the context of long-term care.
Methods. A systematic review of the literature in that bibliographic COBISS
database was used. The restrictive criteria were as follows: the literature was
summarised from 2010 to 2020, the authors included in the field of public
health, title, summary and content containing content on long-term care. The
key words for the search were “elderly”, “demography” AND “elderly”, “long-
term care” AND “elderly”, “culture” AND “elderly”, “prevention” AND “el-
derly”, “prevention” AND “long-term care”, “rehabilitation” AND ”elderly”,
“rehabilitation” AND “long-term care”, “government” AND “longterm care”,
and “funding” AND “long-term care”. The systematic review was carried out
according to the Prisma (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews
and Meta-Analyses) guidelines. This work is a result of the findings of a Euro-
pean project called INTERLINKS (Engl. INTERfaces and LINKS between pre-
vention, rehabilitation, quality of services and informal care), which deals with
health systems and long-term care for older people in Europe. This article is
adapted to the situation in Slovenia.
Results. The reviewed literature covered 7320 articles, books, laws and results
of national statistics, of which 44 were final. The results showed, firstly, that de-
mographic development by 2050 includes both a relative and an absolute in-
crease in older and very old people in Slovenia, and thus we expect an increas-
ing number of people with long-term care needs. We already have a number of
activities (e.g. help with personal hygiene at home, community care, social net-
working, etc.) and various providers (Community nurses, health technicians,
social workers, etc.) who deal with issues that are elements of long-term care,
but we do not yet have the full scope of this activity and the operators. Legis-
lation on long-term care in Slovenia is currently being prepared at national lev-
el. Currently, activities are financed from a number of sources: central budget,
municipal budget, direct payments and other sources such as voluntary contri-
butions, grants and sponsorship.
Discussion and conclusion. Long-term care in Slovenia is at the beginning of its
operation. It is obvious that the system is very complex and fragmented, and
still cannot meet all demand. Existing services and benefits are not linked to a
single system. We hope that the system will be treated by legislation, a long-
term care law, that has already been written and we are waiting for its adop-
tion.
Keywords: demography, community nurse, social workers, home for older
people, acute care
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(LTC) in Slovenia
Tatjana Pokrajac
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Introduction. Our work is a more extensive overview of the state of long-term
care in Slovenia, describing existing social and health care, and preventive and
rehabilitation services in the context of long-term care.
Methods. A systematic review of the literature in that bibliographic COBISS
database was used. The restrictive criteria were as follows: the literature was
summarised from 2010 to 2020, the authors included in the field of public
health, title, summary and content containing content on long-term care. The
key words for the search were “elderly”, “demography” AND “elderly”, “long-
term care” AND “elderly”, “culture” AND “elderly”, “prevention” AND “el-
derly”, “prevention” AND “long-term care”, “rehabilitation” AND ”elderly”,
“rehabilitation” AND “long-term care”, “government” AND “longterm care”,
and “funding” AND “long-term care”. The systematic review was carried out
according to the Prisma (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews
and Meta-Analyses) guidelines. This work is a result of the findings of a Euro-
pean project called INTERLINKS (Engl. INTERfaces and LINKS between pre-
vention, rehabilitation, quality of services and informal care), which deals with
health systems and long-term care for older people in Europe. This article is
adapted to the situation in Slovenia.
Results. The reviewed literature covered 7320 articles, books, laws and results
of national statistics, of which 44 were final. The results showed, firstly, that de-
mographic development by 2050 includes both a relative and an absolute in-
crease in older and very old people in Slovenia, and thus we expect an increas-
ing number of people with long-term care needs. We already have a number of
activities (e.g. help with personal hygiene at home, community care, social net-
working, etc.) and various providers (Community nurses, health technicians,
social workers, etc.) who deal with issues that are elements of long-term care,
but we do not yet have the full scope of this activity and the operators. Legis-
lation on long-term care in Slovenia is currently being prepared at national lev-
el. Currently, activities are financed from a number of sources: central budget,
municipal budget, direct payments and other sources such as voluntary contri-
butions, grants and sponsorship.
Discussion and conclusion. Long-term care in Slovenia is at the beginning of its
operation. It is obvious that the system is very complex and fragmented, and
still cannot meet all demand. Existing services and benefits are not linked to a
single system. We hope that the system will be treated by legislation, a long-
term care law, that has already been written and we are waiting for its adop-
tion.
Keywords: demography, community nurse, social workers, home for older
people, acute care
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