A new horizon for planning services and health care infrastructure for the elderly
conference paper
Since the devolution of capacity planning for care for the elderly in the Netherlands in 1998, no innovations on assessing health needs and on forecasting were made for planning health care services for the elderly. The introduction of Horizon in 2006, which uses needs and deficiencies instead of linear demographic planning has been warmly welcomed. The innovation is to step away from planning on the basis of policies and to forecast demands of services on the basis of actual deficiencies and health needs. This paper will explain the reasoning behind the models and illustrate the differences in planning and forecasting between the two models. Furthermore, a practical example of an application will be shown.
TNO Identifier
528024
Publisher
HaCiric
Source title
HaCIRIC 2009 International conference 2-3 April Brighton, UK : Improving healthcare infrastructures through innovation
Editor(s)
Barlow, J.
Wheeloc, A.
Trimcev, B.
Wheeloc, A.
Trimcev, B.
Place of publication
London
Pages
44-53