healthcare expenditure
The 2023 10X Retirement Reality Report reveals that 71% of respondents are partially or strongly of the view that they will need to continue earning a living after their formal retirement date.
Managed care is used by medical schemes to reduce costs, while still keeping the quality of care high, and these can be done through provider networks, provider oversight, drug formularies, chronic condition programmes, and pre-authorisation mechanisms. While managed care programmes
In the ‘Profile of older persons in SA’ prepared by Stats SA it was estimated that around 38% of South Africans over the age of 60 use chronic medication, around 20% use assistive devices such as spectacles, 10% wear hearing
