In Spain there are 4.2 residential places for every 100 seniors according to data from the Red Aging Laboratory
Castilla y León and Galicia are two autonomous communities with a high percentage of old people. In both, more than one in four inhabitants are over 65 years of age. However, while in the first they have 7.7 places in residences per 100 inhabitants, in the second they have 3.3.
He Network Aging Laboratory The CSIC has published the distribution of residential centers and places by province based on data from September 2022 in a report showing that, In Spain, there are 4.2 residence places for every 100 elderly people. In total, the number of places exceeds 393,000, according to its own nursing home database, which indicates the great dispersion in the values of this ratio, which is generally higher in provinces with a higher proportion of older people. Although The exact level of occupancy of the residences is unknown, they consider that it may be around 86%according to the results of data obtained in its latest survey.
Since there is a disparity in criteria between autonomous communities in the type of residential centers, the signatories of this report explain that They have collected all the collective accommodations for seniors under different models: residences, including mini-residences; sheltered homes or apartments; psychogeriatric centers (or sections within these centers); socio-health centers (senior section, if differentiated); residential complexes (apartments, etc., with common services, publicly owned); as well as other collective centers.
The oldest communities
He Principality of Asturiasthe region that has the oldest population in the country (up to 27.2% of its inhabitants are over 65 years old) and that expects the weight of its dependent population to double by 2045, has a ratio above the average in Spain but well below Castilla y León: 5.5 places per 100 inhabitants.
After Asturias, Castilla y León and Galicia, Basque Country (23.2% of older population), Cantabria (23.1%), Aragon (22.1%), The Rioja (21.5%) and Estremadura (21.5%) are the autonomous communities with the highest average age in Spain.
Although in the Basque Country the ratio of residential places is 4.1 per 100 people; in Cantabria it rises to 4.9; and up to 6.5 in Aragon. For its part, in La Rioja it is 5.2; and, in Extremadura, 6.7.
The The lowest ratios are in the Region of Murcia, with 2.3 places per 100 inhabitants and 16.1% of the elderly population; in Ceuta, with 2.1 places and 12.5% of the elderly population; and in the Canary Islands, with 1.9 places and 17.1% of seniors.
Differences between provinces
By province, what stands out, above all, Soria, where they have more than one place for every ten inhabitants (11.1 per 100), with a percentage of 25.5% of older people. Palenciaa province in which 26.7% of its population is over 65 years old, has a ratio of 9.8.
In Guadalajara, which has a 16% elderly population, they have 8.9 places per 100 inhabitants, that is, 3,933 for a total population of 268,177 inhabitants. While Santa Cruz de Tenerife, with 2.2 places per 100 inhabitants (and 18% of the elderly population), and Las Palmas, with 1.6 places (16.3% of the population over 65 years of age), They are the provinces with the lowest ratios.