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Board of Advisory:

If there is no change in policy, the fund for
the elderly will exhaust within a decade

taking place for health,
care and aging, maintain-
ing the sustainability of
health care funds from AZV
and SVB will remain a chal- tions must be taken. growing demand increases

(Oranjestad)—In an annual lenge. Prevention, promo- the upward pressure on the
report for 2022, the Board of Also, because of the ef- tion for a healthy life style With this, the conclusions financing of AZV and the
information from the research carried quality of care it provides in
and
public
Advisory has recently elab- fects of aging within the the future.
orated on the challenges labor market and the rela- serve as basic elements of out in 2018 by the Depart-
a health policy, according ment of Public Health
that the aging problem on tionship between workers to SER. Aruba (DVG) regarding In terms of treatments and
Aruba may bring. On the and those unemployed, long-term medical care in benefits for older adults,
other hand, the emerging this can create deterio- SER has also made a series Aruba, confirms a further the problem of aging has
challenges of the econom- rating effects in the busi- of concrete recommenda- increase in pressure and important consequences.
ic demand are particularly ness environment in the tions to the government to importance for action. As a result of the doubling
related to the structure of long run. For this reason, guarantee good quality of aging population, not only
care. the entity indicates that it
is very important to real- care for the elderly. These The continuous growth of will there be more elderly
recommendations include the group of people whose adults who received the
Inspired by a problem cre- ize productive reforms and support for informal care, average age is increasing AOV benefit, but an elderly
ated in the labor market, investments in benefit of participation of the elderly has an impact on public adult will be receiving this
the Board of Advisory has the potential growth in the and the quality of care. health and care. Looking at benefit for a longer period
indicated that there is an economy. the high concentration of of time. Because of this,
increasing pressure that A report published in 2022 spending in health among there is a need for more
will emerge on the eco- According to the board, on the efficacy and effec- the highest age groups, the financial resources to guar-
nomic growth. Aging—and we cannot just focus on tiveness of medical care in problem of aging will bring antee this payment in the
add to that the shortage the challenges of the de- Aruba and commissioned an increase in total spend- future.
in the market—may make mographic development by the Ministry of Health ing on care.
the economy grow slow- on the side of economic and Sports, affirms that Because the benefits need
er, or may even decrease offers, but we also have there is a need for a short- This is mainly caused by to be paid to a part of the
growth all-together. to consider the demand. term emergency plan for this group that most often population that increasing-
This way, there will be—
Another concern in this as- with the push of the ag- the care of elderly adults have chronic conditions ly becomes bigger, if there
and that in the sector of or even several at once. is no change in policy, the
pect is that the shortage ing population—a bigger residential care, there is an The increase in the cost of fund for the elderly will ex-
may bring detrimental con- demand in care and as a emergency for which ac-
sequences to the loan ser- consequence, a demand medical care due to the haust within a decade.q
vice for touristic products, for workers in the health
with negative effects on sector.
the quality of product de- This development does not
livery and eventually, rates. stand on its own, but goes
hand-in-hand with a com-
The entity remarks that plete modification of the
coming out of the demo- assistive structure, the asso-
graphic evolution, in a par- ciation formation and the
ticipation of employment investments in the installa-
of equal age, the number tion of care.
of unemployed people will
increase. In its advisory report of
2019 titled “Policy on the
Despite the problem of ag- elderly - care and welfare:
ing, the growth of GDP per a turnaround!”, the Board
capita will probably de- of Social Economics (SER)
pend more on the devel- pleads for a complete
opment of work productiv- change in the way Aruba
ity, and in the long run, this generally regards and
can be the force behind treats the structure of care,
economic growth. The policies and the well-being
question remains if this also of the elderly.
counts for Aruba.
SER concluded that
They have highlighted achieving quality and at-
that considering the type tention for the elderly is
of labor offers in the non- predetermined by the rate
diversified economy on of health as well as the ac-
the island, the shortage in tive participation from the
the labor market cannot entire population from birth
be accommodated for an till death.
increase in level of educa-
tion and labor productivity They have stated that while
in the Aruban community. there are no other visions