Residencias: medir su transparencia para que no vuelva a pasar
Description
In this Agenda Pública article, we present a comparative transparency index for nursing home services across Spain’s 17 autonomous communities, based on a systematic review of 48 regional laws governing social services, elder care, and residential facilities. The piece argues that the pandemic exposed how much these services still operate behind closed doors and makes the case for stronger legal obligations to provide clear information to residents and their families. Figure 1 shows the degree to which each autonomous community’s legislation guarantees 26 transparency indicators across three dimensions of service quality: structure, processes, and results. It highlights both the unevenness of regional regulation and a broader pattern in which requirements tend to be stronger for service processes than for staffing, infrastructure, inspections, or evaluation outcomes.
Read the full article at Agenda Pública, El País.