The challenges:

• Current over-capacities in inpatient facilities
• Lack of specialist resources combined with high levels of fluctuation
• Poor management methods and leadership tools
• Need for investment and lack of financial resources for healthcare property
• Capped budgets for cost centres and increasing personnel costs and overheads putting pressure on margins
• Long-term increase in demand and increased requirements from patients in terms of property quality and specialisations
• Linking inpatient elderly care with outpatient and acute medical healthcare formats and integration of government elderly care into the social structures of communes / cities.
• Creation of support services for the 65+ generation.
• Use of volunteers from this generation for this support
• Removing the stigma from death as part of the life-cycle.

The risks:

Without pro-active action, analysis of the available empirical results on the economic development of the industry suggests that the continued existence of many companies is under threat.