CARE∞TRACK Video Library

The measurement, understanding and monitoring of unmet need is important to the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals and the WHO global impact framework. As populations age, health needs shift, and the predominant disease burden is increasingly due to chronic diseases and associated disabilities. Many of these chronic diseases, their risks and consequences, are modifiable and their outcomes can be improved through accessing quality health and social care services. But in many countries, health and social needs of older people are not being met for a portion of the population. The gap represented by unmet need raises issues of equity in service coverage and universality of health care. However, current measures of universal health coverage (UHC) do not assess unmet need, nor do they adequately capture services that older persons require, including social care. There is a need for an agreed standard measure of unmet health and social care needs for older people that can be applied across countries to allow ongoing monitoring and to enable improvement in coverage, equity, and quality of care.

This Webinar covers information and discussion on the issues relating to the measurement of unmet care needs in older people.

Professor Paul Dugdale

A/Professor Jean-Frederic Levesque

Susana Harding

Emeritus Professor Julie Byles

Janine L Charnley

August 28th 2023

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