Socioeconomic Inequity in Access to Medical and Long-Term Care Among Older People.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ensuring equitable access to medical and long-term care (LTC) is critical to enable older people to maintain their health and well-being even after they undergo a decline in their intrinsic capacity.

Methods

We used data from five waves of the National Survey of the Japanese Elderly, conducted between 2002 and 2021, to assess gradients in access to medical care and LTC by income and education among Japanese individuals aged 60 years and above. Specifically, we assessed self-reported unmet needs for medical care and LTC, and public LTC use, and estimated the concentration indices (CI) to evaluate the degree of inequality and inequity. We standardised public LTC use by need and non-need variables. We analysed data derived from up to 1,775 person-wave observations fr

SUBMITTER: Okamoto S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11756124 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature