Italian doctors are the oldest in
Europe with 55% of them over 55 and the number of retirements is
expected to peak in 2025, the Italian Geriatric Society Hospital
and Territory (SIGOT) warned on Wednesday.
SIGOT said the retirement wave - with an estimated 13,156
doctors set to become eligible in 2025 - will be registered as
medical professionals face a growing demand for assistance due
to the population's aging.
According to figures released by national statistics bureau
ISTAT this year, over the past two decades residents over 65
years of age have increased by over 3 million to 14.3 million in
Italy.
At the same time, in 2021 in Italy 55% of doctors were older
than 55, compared to 44.5% in France, 44.1% in Germany, and
32.7% in Spain being older than 55.
After the peak expected in 2025, the president of SIGOT who
works at Rome's San Giovanni-Addolorata Hospital, Lorenzo
Palleschi said "only in 2030 we will be back to 2020 levels,
with 7.471 annual retirements".
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