Proportion of adults aged 65 and over reporting limitations in daily activities, 2021
– Some Limitations: 37%
– Severe Limitations: 12%
Population aged 15 years and over rating their own health as bad or very bad, 2021: 7.7%
Adults aged 65 and over rating their own health as poor or very poor, by income, 2021
– Lowest quintile: 24%
– Highest quintile: 11%
– Total: 19%
Estimated prevalence of dementia per 1,000 population, 2021: 16.9
Estimated prevalence of dementia per 1,000 population, 2040: 24.0
Source: OECD (2023), Health at a Glance 2023: OECD Indicators, OECD Publishing, Paris, doi.org/10.1787/7a7afb35-en.
Percent of Population Aged 16 and Older Reporting Limitations in General Activities: 20.7%
Source: Statistics on Persons with Disabilities, Master tables concerning EU 2020: year 2018, Prepared for the European Disability Expertise (EDE) By Stefanos Grammenos (in collaboration with Mark Priestley), Sept. 11, 2020.
“It is estimated that between three and four out of ten people with disabilities suffer from social exclusion in health. They are excluded or precariously cared for health devices.12 In regional legislation, budget items with specific mention of people with disabilities are few.13“
Source: Cristina Jenaro and Miguel A. Verdugo, European Semester 2020-2021 country fiche on disability equality: Spain, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2021
“Between three and four out of ten people with disabilities suffer from social exclusion in health. If, in general terms, 14% of the population is excluded or precariously cared for in terms of health devices, this percentage reaches 34.4% in the case of people with disabilities.64 In regional legislation, budget items with specific mention of people with disabilities are few.65 The crisis will likely increase the high levels of poverty or social exclusion in Spain, especially among families with children. Social protection expenditure remains highly oriented towards older people, and the level of expenditure on pensions is set to increase significantly in the medium to long term (should the announced departures from the 2013 pension reform be made permanent and no adequate compensatory measures taken). Existing regional minimum income schemes only reach 20% of their potential beneficiaries in the country, amid large regional disparities in terms of coverage, duration, access conditions and adequacy.66“
Source: Cristina Jenaro and Miguel A. Verdugo, European Semester 2020-2021 country fiche on disability equality: Spain, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2021
“In many Spanish homes where people with disabilities live, aid for personal care and accompaniment at home is scarce in quantity and quality. Their social exclusion is clearly higher than in the rest of the population.61 The nature of such exclusion is multidimensional through exclusion from employment, access to resources for health maintenance, as well as housing accessibility, and social isolation.62“
Source: Cristina Jenaro and Miguel A. Verdugo, European Semester 2020-2021 country fiche on disability equality: Spain, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2021
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