In the master thesis, we analyzed the costs of establishing care centers for elderly people and home care in a hierarchically organized system of 2–37 functional regions and 37 local action groups in Slovenia. The system of hierarchical functional regions modeled according to the Intramax approach originates from (Drobne, 2019), and the system of local action groups refers to the program period of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food, for the period 2014-2020 (MKGP, 2016). The costs of home care were calculated using data on labour commuting, with which functional regions were modelled. The analysis was performed for the situation in 2019 and for the simulated conditions in 2050. In the simulated conditions for the future, we took particular account of demographic and economic changes. The results of the analysis showed the suitability of locating care centers in the centers of 5–15 functionally closed regions and of locating home care within these functional regions. There are no significant differences between the systems of functional regions, but the most cost-effective solution is in the case of the system of 11 functional regions. At the meso level of care for the elderly, the system of 37 local action groups is more cost-effective than the system of 37 functional regions modeled with the Intramax method.
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