Special Eurobarometer 283: Health and long term care in the European Union

The Directorate-General Employment of the European Commission commissioned a survey that examines public opinion about health care across Europe, focussing specifically on long-term care and care of the elderly. Fieldwork: Between the 25th of May and the 30th of June 2007. This report studies successively the following issues covered by the survey. ♦ First of all, we focus on the lifestyle of Europeans, their health-limitations and their views about becoming dependent upon the help of others. In chapter two we examine the public’s assessment of the health-care system in general and the care of dependent people specifically by looking at quality, availability, accessibility and affordability of health care services. We furthermore analyse the extent to which people have had to do without are because of availability, accessibility or affordability problems. ♦ The second part of the report focuses on attitudes to care of elderly and dependent people: how people want their elderly parents to be looked after, how should the care of elderly and dependent people be financed and how well elderly and dependent people are perceived to be looked after. ♦ In the final part we focus specifically on long-term care and the care of the elderly. We firstly examine Europeans’ views about the provision of long term care: the appropriateness and costs and to what extent they themselves have been involved in providing care. We then look at people’s views about receiving care: the perceived likelihood that people will receive appropriate care in the future, how they expect and prefer to be taken care of should the need arise and how they think they will finance their future long-term care. In the last chapter, we look at the extent to which abuse of elderly dependent people is perceived to be taking place, what forms of abuse this vulnerable group is subjected to and who the perpetrators are perceived to be. #####The results by volumes are distributed as follows: * Volume A: Countries * Volume AA: Groups of countries * Volume A' (AP): Trends * Volume AA' (AAP): Trends of groups of countries * Volume B: EU/socio-demographics * Volume B' (BP) : Trends of EU/ socio-demographics * Volume C: Country/socio-demographics ---- Researchers may also contact GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences: [https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer](https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer)