Due to the extremely high cost of housing and the exceptionally high proportion of single persons and childless couples in the population over 50, the needs and interests of expatriates and their families with regard to the use of health and social services in the country of origin are significant.
Telemedical services, in addition to protecting personal information, require absolute discretion of health-related data.
An individual’s or family’s initiative can be more efficient than rigid system structure.
Active and productive aging involves promoting activity, maintaining health, fostering inclusion and social support, and improving the quality of life of older adults through a transdisciplinary approach.
Over the past decade, consumerism has led to new ways of communicating and new rules of conduct for all those involved in healthcare and aging.
Transferring the focus of elderly care from state level to the local level, and deinstitutionalization of elderly care, should allow the development of alternative forms of care for the elderly, with prolonged living in their own homes.
The separate status of the competence of health insurance and social insurance for long-term care is of utmost importance!
Modern communications allow patients to make independent decisions and service choices.
We look at health from the point of view of the insurance company, the employer and the family. The costs of illness are often invisible. They are unpredictable and high. Surprising and problematic are especially the indirect costs.
"I have spent a lifetime investing in children and the holiday home. How should I finance my old age? I don't want to sell the house and I am not allowed to sell the children!
Due to the extremely high cost of housing and the exceptionally high proportion of single persons and childless couples in the population over 50, the needs and interests of expatriates and their families with regard to the use of health and social services in the country of origin are significant.
Telemedical services, in addition to protecting personal information, require absolute discretion of health-related data.
