Demographically Aging Society in the Health Care System in Poland

Abstrakt

The notion of the „long-term health care” according to the OECD is a complex political issue that covers the whole range of services for the reliant people, who need help in performing the basic, every-day activities for a long period of time. Such a type of health care is most often needed by the people from the older group of age, who are most vulnerable to the prolonged chronic diseases that cause physical or mental disability (see: [3]). The aim of the following article is presentation of changes in the health protection system and its provision over the elderly in Poland. The study presents the description of the care provided for the elderly by including the citizens in the long-term health care service.

The features characteristic for the long-term health care in individual voivodeships underwent horizontal analysis and the descriptive analysis of the changes is presented.