The scale for assessing eligibility for long-term care in Slovenia is presented; the scale is to be used within the framework of the Long-term care act. The paper critically evaluates the results of the scale by examining which applicants are not eligible for long-term care, presenting the distribution of applicants across the five categories of long-term care and identifying factors associated with a higher score on the scale in the five pilot sites. The data was collected as part of the Evaluation of the project "Transforming existing networks to provide community-based care services and programmes for old people". The results show that 13.3% of applicants were not eligible for long-term care under the project. Factors associated with higher eligibility included: use of existing services, larger household size, higher dementia risk, urban setting, and male gender. Factors associated with a lower score were: marital status, i.e. single or divorced people receiving fewer points on average, and, to a lesser extent, older age. The concluding section places the results in the context of the long-term care system and suggests further steps for the implementation of eligibility assessment procedures.
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