ECONOMICS AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF LONG-TERM CARE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC EU MEMBERSHIP

There is a growing interest to coordinate social and health services in the EU both at the level of the national states and between the member states. It is because of the large demographic changes in countries, which are related with the process of global aging. In European countries, it is expected that with the increasing number of elderly dependent persons will drastically increase costs of the formal and informal long-term healthcare for chronically ill people. This raises the need to make the most effective use of available resources, as well as efforts to compile the optimum range of long-term healthcare for the individual and for the community to satisfy the attributes of geographic accessibility, quality and financial capacity for the individual and for society. On the foregoing facts reflects the contribution, the primary objective is to point out to the successful models of long-term healthcare in selected countries, to assess the expenditure on long-term care in EU countries and the social and economic requirements of countries relating to the ongoing process of aging. Based on the findings we analyze the interface management between social and health systems in the Czech Republic and Slovakia in order to serve for elderly and to create conditions for healthy and active aging.