August 22, 2021 — RUV

Iceland is one of the worst when it comes to spending money on home care

“Iceland is one of the worst-performing countries in the world in how it allocates funding for the care of the elderly. 92 percent of the funding is put into warehousing older people in nursing homes—at nursing homes that now say they don’t have enough money to provide that care,” says Dr. Samir Sinha, Director of Health Policy Research, NIA.