{"id":49281,"date":"2019-02-14T08:18:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T08:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taubcenter.secure2.anova-host.com\/is-israel-prepared-for-an-aging-population\/"},"modified":"2020-12-27T09:11:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T09:11:19","slug":"is-israel-prepared-for-an-aging-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taubcenter.org.il\/en\/is-israel-prepared-for-an-aging-population\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Israel prepared for an aging population?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-44655\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taubcenter.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/\u05d3\u05d1-\u05e6\u05e8\u05e0\u05d9\u05d7\u05d5\u05d1\u05e1\u05e7\u05d9-dov-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\u05d3\u05d1 \u05e6\u05e8\u05e0\u05d9\u05d7\u05d5\u05d1\u05e1\u05e7\u05d9 dov\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Taub Center recently co-hosted a roundtable discussion, \u201cBuilding a National Plan for Israel\u2019s Aging Preparedness: Lessons from Singapore\u201d with the\u00a0Israel-Asia Center, which included remarks from guest speaker Christopher Gee from Singapore. <strong>We\u2019ve asked the moderator of the event and Chair of our Health Policy Program Prof. Dov Chernichovsky five questions about why this topic is so important.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">1. Why is the aging population such an important topic to be discussing right now in Israel? Isn\u2019t Israel a relatively young country?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s population is relatively young (because of migration and high fertility rates), and only about 10% of the population is aged 65 and above, compared with almost double that share in the U.S. Europe, and Japan. Nonetheless, Israel\u2019s population is rapidly aging. The number of seniors in Israel ages 70 and older is projected to double by 2035. As a result, functional impairment is expected to rise 16% faster than population growth. Another big concern in Israel is that about a fifth of senior citizens in Israel live under the poverty line. To meet the growing demand for long-term care that is bound to come with an aging population, Israel will have to confront shortages in long-term care resources, evaluate current and future potential methods of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taubcenter.org.il\/long-term-care-israel-funding-organization-2\/\">funding long-term care<\/a>, and address inefficiencies in the way benefits and services for the elderly are distributed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">2. How does long-term care currently work in Israel?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As opposed to most developed nations (with the exception of the U.S.), Israel currently does not have comprehensive universal long-term care insurance. Only about half of spending on long-term care in Israel is publicly funded and the share of private expenditure on this type of care is 45% \u2013 triple that of the OECD, which stands at 16%, on average. The extensive reliance on private funding leads to inequality in the long-term care received by Israel\u2019s elderly from different socioeconomic backgrounds. Furthermore, the system for receiving benefits and services is fragmented and confusing. The responsibility is spread across several government ministries and authorities, and senior citizens have a difficult time understanding how to get the benefits due to them.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">3. What recommendations have been made in Israel to change the long-term care system and prepare for the changes in Israel\u2019s age-structure?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Knesset Subcommittee on the Status of the Elderly, headed by MK Tali Ploskov (who spoke at the event), and advised by Prof. Yitzhak Brick (who also participated in the discussion), has prepared recommendations regarding Israel\u2019s long-term care system that include eradicating poverty among Israel\u2019s senior citizens, addressing retirement age policies to make them more in line with increased life expectancy, providing more support for primary care givers, and streamlining the provision of benefits and services for the elderly. The subcommittee has not, however, dealt with the financial implications of its recommendations.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">4. Why compare Israel to Singapore?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Israel and Singapore have some key characteristics in common, both being young, small, developed, \u201cisolated,\u201d and having limited natural resources. More importantly, however, Singapore has been a leader in future policy planning, particularly when it comes to preparing for an aging population. Singapore\u2019s population is the second most-rapidly aging population in the world and is in the process constructing policies to ease the dramatic shift in age-structure they will experience in the coming few decades. Therefore, as Israel faces its own challenges arising from an aging population, we can draw on Singapore\u2019s experience.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">5. What are a few things that Israel can learn from Singapore about preparing for an aging population?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is important to note that there are many central differences in culture and government structure between Singapore and Israel, so we should be cautious about mapping solutions from one country onto the other. That being said, there are a number of aspects of Singapore\u2019s approach to an aging population that might be useful in building a national plan for aging preparedness in Israel. These include universal public housing subsidies that help the elderly meet their housing needs (a huge cost for the elderly in Israel), compulsory savings accounts that can be used to finance long-term care, daycare center models for the elderly, formal arrangements for family care-givers, and inter-ministerial cooperation in forming a large-scale plan to address the aging population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Taub Center recently co-hosted a roundtable discussion, \u201cBuilding a National Plan for Israel\u2019s Aging Preparedness: Lessons from Singapore\u201d with the\u00a0Israel-Asia Center, which included remarks from guest speaker Christopher Gee from Singapore. 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