Background information
Elderly care is an area that is attracting increasing attention, and the National Board of Health and Welfare was given a special assignment to investigate whether there are systematic quality differences in elderly care.
Challenge
On behalf of the National Board of Health and Welfare, Sirona investigated whether there were systematic quality differences in care for the elderly. Central to the assignment was to compare the quality of care between public and private providers and to gain insight into whether quality is affected if an individual provider conducts its activities in the form of a profit-making or non-profit-making association.
Implementation
The work included extensive quantitative analyses based on Äldreguiden, the national user survey, the City of Stockholm's user survey, Senior Alert and others. Analyses were performed both separately and by cross-checking between different sources to validate data sources and study correlations.
Outcome
The analysis showed that it was not possible to identify any systematic differences in quality between publicly and privately run care for older people in special housing and home care. A further insight was that it was also not possible to measure any statistically significant differences between for-profit and non-profit providers.
