Integrating Social and Health Care Needs Assessment to Meet the Demand for Care of the Elderly in Italy: A National Cross-Sectional Study

Abstract

Background: To size the demand for care generated by the population aged >75 years in Italy the authors conducted a secondary analysis of data stemming from the third wave of the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS- wave3), carried out in Italy in 2019, based on a harmonized questionnaire at European level.