ITALIANS ARE LIVING LONGER AND LONGER:
LTC (Long Term Care) is a fast growing industry
The evolution of demographic trends, changes in family and social models, the progressive aging of the population, are among the most important phenomena of our time, leading to profound changes from a social, cultural, economic, medical-scientific and technological point of view. The LTC (Long Term Care) industry is very dynamic and with interesting opportunities for investment and development.
This favorable context, is a clear opportunity for development and growth in the sector of health and social-health facilities, highlighting the need for important structural and infrastructural interventions. The opportunity translates in modernizing, restructuring and developing a current park of facilities that are on average obsolete, inefficient and insufficient, in order to face the growing social-welfare and health demand of the coming decades. Italy shows a need for an additional 80/100,000 beds for seniors over the next few years.
2024 KEY INDEXES
- Life expectancy: 81,4 years for men – 85,5 years for women
- Old age index: 199,8 elderly people (over 65 years) for every 100 young people (under 14 years)
- Birth rate: 374.000 births, compared to 651.000 deaths
Key indexes reflect a population that is not growing, but progressively aging, with an increasing need for accommodation, assistance and shelter facilities, responsive and adequate to the new needs of the elderly.