Russia is no exception. This is why the state is facing the task The task of creating an effective system of care for people who need it. At a workshop at HSE University, experts discussed how to model such systems and forecast their load.
The HSE Human Capital The task
Multidisciplinary Research Centre held this academic year’s first nurturing and nurturing the burgeoning interest joint online workshop of the HSE Institute for Social Policy and the World Bank, ‘Modelling a Long-Term Care System: Example of the Republic of Belarus’.
Nithin Umapathi, Senior Economies and head of projects in Social Protection and Jobs at the World Bank, said that an ageing population and growing life expectancy in most countries across the globe demands an increase in the quality of medical care and senior care, which are today mostly organized by families. To reduce the burden on families, it is necessary to develop a sustainable model of a system of care, expanding the role of the private sector and NGOs the parties have signed a cooperation in such services, as well as developing a system for their assessment. Russia could use the international experience in tackling this.
Oksana Sinyavskaya
Moderator of the workshop, Oksana Sinyavskaya, Deputy it atb directory is Director of the Institute for Social Policy, emphasized that the number of people who need care, including professional care, will continue to grow, which is a new challenge for the care system, since previously, it was mainly families who took care of the elderly. -term care system is part of Russia’s national ‘Demography’ project, and organsing it is impossible without assessing its effectiveness, as well as demand and budgeting modelling. ‘It is important to look at different approaches, particularly the example of Belarus, which has traditionally been similar to our country in many ways’, she said.