About nursing homes and care for the Elderly

A video about live in Spanish nursing homes during the coronavirus covid-19 pandemic.  How homes were forced to apply protocols that in effect affected the lives of residents without anybody asking them about their opinion.   https://youtu.be/pzZSmZd9mKY . A video that tries to take the point of view of a resident who lives with dementia. ​ Musica: Laid Back Guitar. Kevi McLeod. Liscensed under creative commons by attribution 3.0 Liscense

Watch this video and find out which are the key factors in order to decide to invest in the nursing home industry in Spain with  Josep de Martí and Anna Cebrian. The Spanish nursing home industry is growing dramatically and it will continue doing so during the next decade.  According to a recent study over 75.000 new beds will need to be installed.   In this video Josep de Martí, manager and founder of Inforesidencias.com and Anna Cebrián, marketing and development  director of the site explain which are the four most relevant aspects to consider when thinking about investing in the Spanish nursing home industry.  

  The Business Federation of the Dependency ( FED ) presented at the beginning of 2021  Radiography of the sector of residences for the elderly in Spain, a report written by the prestigious consulting firm PWC. The goal of this White Paper on the Spanish care for the aged in nursing homes’ industry is to point and descrive the main factors that affect the demand for residential places for the elderly in Spain, the current characteristics of their supply and the conditions of access and sustainability of the industry, as well as the economic and labor contribution of an industry that generates an economic activity of more than 4,500 million euros a year and that directly employs almost 1% of the Spanish working population. The document focuses on a strongly regulated industry, with more than 50 years of experience in public-private collaboration and with a very similar industrial structure to that of other European markets. However, in the case of Spain there is a clear shortage of vaca

The global pandemic of covid-19 is leaving behind a long trail of victims most of them among the elderly (according to data from the Spanish Ministry of Health, 80% of those who died from the virus were over 70 years old).  According to data from the Institute for the Elderly and Social Services (Imserso), there are there are 5,457 residential facilities for the elderly in Spain with 381,158 beds. 70.4% of residents are women. And 81.8% of the elderly housed in a nursing home are 80 or more years old. The coverage rate for this service is 4.21%. In other words, there are places for 4.21% of those over 65 years of age. Close to the commonly accepted recommended  ratio of five places for every 100 people over 65. Of the 5,457 centers, 1,394 are publicly owned, some of them managed by a private company, and 4,063 are privately owned. The national average shows the following balance: 74.4% of residences for the elderly in Spain are in private hands and host an average of 69.8 beds per resi