CORNERSTONE Healthcare will address ministers in Iceland on the benefits to care of private investment.
The specialist care provider will be one of the keynote speakers at a national conference to make the case for an increase in private investment in the sector.
Due to Iceland’s ageing population, and a growing number of people with dementia, the health care system is struggling to cope with rising demand.
Currently, residential nursing care in Iceland is provided mostly by non-profit organisations but more investment and diversified services are needed.
Specialist care facilities, which meet the specific needs of the most vulnerable residents, are very limited in number and nursing homes are unable to provide such tailored care, putting further strain on already struggling services.
The aim of the ‘Older and Better’ conference at the Harpa Conference Centre in Reykjavik on September 14 will be to examine how private enterprise could best be involved in elderly residential care to the benefit of residents and their families.
Among the 250 delegates attending will be Iceland’s health care minister, Willum Thor Thorsson, who will open the conference, and representatives from health and dementia care charities, care operators, politicians and business leaders.
