Poland has experienced a powerful demographic shift, driven predominantly by increased life expectancy, a sizable baby boomer generation nearing retirement, and persistently low birth rates. Poland is characterized by demographic and spatial disparities, where life expectancy differs significantly by gender and region, and age-informed income disparities are observed as older people face above-average poverty risks. In Poland, long-term care (LTC) is mostly provided informally - about 80 percent of the total, with formal care accounting for the remaining 20 percent - and the burden on informal and formal care services is set to increase. This report constitutes one of the products prepared by the World Bank at the request of the Ministers two Funduszy i Polityki Regionalej (MFiPR)
it is situated in a broader program of policy reform and informed by an LTC vision document that outlines sweeping aspirations for Poland to achieve in relation to its obligations to its aging population.