Long-term care policy often begins too late. A person is assessed after walking has become difficult, after repeated falls, after a hospital admission has reduced confidence, or when family members can no longer compensate for declining function. At that point, the system is deciding how much dependency to support. A stronger strategy also asks what could have preserved independence earlier.
That question is particularly important for Israel. Life expectancy remains high, while the number of people living into ages associated with frailty, dementia and functional limitation will continue to increase. The strategic challenge explored across the Israel Aging, Long-Term Care & Community Support Knowledge Hub is therefore not simply how to expand care capacity as the population ages. It is how to influence the trajectory of need itself.
Prevention in this context does not mean promising that aging, disability or long-term care can be avoided. Many people will develop significant support needs despite excellent preventive care. The more credible objective is to delay avoidable functional decline, shorten periods of severe dependency where possible, restore function after illness and help people live safely with existing limitations.
Israel already has important foundations for this approach. The Ministry of Health's National Fall Prevention Program, health promotion through the health plans, statutory rehabilitation, geriatric services, community initiatives and growing attention to healthy aging all address parts of the pathway. The next opportunity is to treat them not as separate interventions but as components of long-term care strategy.
Longer life makes functional health increasingly important
Israel enters the next phase of population aging from a comparatively strong position. OECD data published in 2025 reported life expectancy of 83.8 years, above the OECD average, while Israel was among the countries recording particularly substantial gains in life expectancy at age 65 between 2000 and 2023.
Longevity is a major social achievement. But years of life and years of independent life are not the same measure.
For long-term care planning, the crucial question is how much of additional longevity is lived with sufficient physical, cognitive and social functioning to maintain everyday independence. An older person may live for many years with diabetes, cardiovascular disease, arthritis or sensory impairment without requiring intensive personal care. Dependency often emerges when multiple conditions interact with declining strength, cognition, medication effects, unsuitable housing, isolation or an acute event.
This is why frailty, falls and functional decline belong inside long-term care policy rather than only clinical medicine.
The idea of compressing disability provides a useful strategic frame. It does not assume that all morbidity can be eliminated. It asks whether severe disability and dependency can, for some people, be concentrated into a shorter period toward the end of life rather than extending across many years.
Even modest changes matter at population level. If large numbers of people reach high levels of dependency six or twelve months later than they otherwise would have done, the effect can be significant for individuals, caregivers, workforce demand and public expenditure.
Prevention has to operate across the life course and the care pathway
There is no single intervention called prevention.
Some preventive action begins decades before somebody might need long-term care: physical activity, nutrition, smoking reduction, cardiovascular risk management, education and social participation can influence later-life health and cognition.
Other interventions become particularly important in older age. These include maintaining muscle strength, detecting frailty, reviewing medications, correcting vision or hearing problems, preventing falls, improving nutrition, reducing loneliness and adapting the home.
A third layer begins after deterioration has already occurred. Rehabilitation after stroke, fracture, surgery or acute illness can prevent a temporary loss of function from becoming permanent dependency.
For long-term care strategy, these activities can be understood through four connected objectives:
- Prevent or delay avoidable disease and impairment through health promotion and effective management of modifiable risk.
- Detect emerging functional decline early before a manageable problem becomes a crisis.
- Restore function after illness or injury through timely rehabilitation and continued recovery support.
- Adapt environments and support so that residual impairment does not unnecessarily become dependency.
The fourth objective is particularly important. Disability does not arise only from a person's body. A mobility limitation that is manageable in an accessible apartment can become severe dependency in a home with stairs, an inaccessible bathroom and no nearby support.
Prevention therefore extends beyond healthcare.
Falls show how a preventable event can change the long-term care trajectory
Falls provide one of the clearest examples of the connection between prevention and long-term care.
Israel's Ministry of Health estimates that around 1,000 older people fall each day and reports that roughly one-third of older adults experience a fall. Falls become more common with age and are a leading cause of hip fracture in later life.
The consequence is not limited to the injury itself.
An older person who fractures a hip may experience surgery, hospitalization, rehabilitation, loss of muscle strength and reduced confidence. Even after the fracture heals, fear of falling can reduce activity. Reduced activity produces further weakness. Family members begin doing tasks the person previously performed independently. A temporary episode can therefore become a new level of dependency.
Israel's National Fall Prevention Program, launched by the Ministry of Health in 2017, explicitly connects falls prevention with preservation of health and functioning. Its approach spans public awareness, health-plan activity, professional training, rehabilitation, home assessment, local-authority involvement, data development and research.
This breadth matters. Falls rarely have one cause. Risk may reflect muscle weakness, balance, medication, vision, hearing, chronic disease, postural hypotension and environmental hazards simultaneously.
A narrow intervention therefore misses the system problem. Removing a rug does not correct medication-related dizziness. Reviewing medication does not strengthen weakened leg muscles. Exercise alone cannot make an inaccessible bathroom safe.
Operational scenario: the first fall becomes a prevention trigger
An 81-year-old woman living alone falls in her apartment but is not seriously injured. She does not initially tell her family physician because she considers the fall embarrassing and believes nothing can be done.
Several weeks later she mentions increasing unsteadiness during a routine contact with her health plan. Instead of treating the absence of injury as the end of the episode, the fall becomes a trigger for wider assessment.
Her medication is reviewed and one medicine is identified as potentially contributing to postural hypotension. Balance and lower-limb strength are assessed. She is referred for appropriate exercise and rehabilitation input, while an occupational assessment identifies poor bathroom access and inadequate lighting at home.
The intervention also addresses behavior. She has reduced walking since the fall because she is afraid of falling again. Restoring confidence therefore becomes part of maintaining function rather than an optional psychological extra.
Six months later, the meaningful outcome is not simply that no second fall has been recorded. She is still walking to nearby shops, bathing independently and participating in community activity.
For governance, this illustrates why a fall should be measured as more than an incident. Systems need visibility of whether risk was identified, whether appropriate interventions followed and whether function was maintained. Organizations developing comparable prevention pathways can use the Quality Dashboard Builder to structure measures that connect activity with functional outcomes, while recognizing that Israeli national and health-plan indicators remain the authoritative measures within Israel.
Primary care can identify decline before long-term care becomes necessary
Israel's four health plans occupy a strategically important position in prevention because they maintain longitudinal relationships with the population through the National Health Insurance system.
For an older person, the family physician and community health team may encounter warning signs before any long-term care application is made: unexplained weight loss, repeated falls, increasing medication complexity, reduced mobility, confusion, caregiver concern or missed appointments.
The Ministry of Health's current guidance on functional decline emphasizes precisely this distinction. Sudden changes in physical or mental function can indicate an acute medical problem requiring urgent assessment, while gradual deterioration over weeks or months also warrants investigation.
This creates an opportunity for primary care and care coordination to operate as an early-warning system for dependency.
The operational challenge is that disease management and functional preservation are not identical.
A person's blood pressure, diabetes and cardiac condition may each be clinically well managed while their ability to shop, climb stairs, prepare meals or rise safely from a chair deteriorates. Long-term care prevention requires clinical services to notice the functional consequences surrounding disease.
That shifts the question from “Is the condition controlled?” toward “Can the person still do what matters in everyday life?”
Medication management is part of maintaining independence
Polypharmacy becomes increasingly important as people live longer with multiple chronic conditions.
Medication can preserve health and independence, but adverse effects and interactions can also contribute to dizziness, confusion, falls, reduced appetite and functional decline. Israel's fall-prevention guidance explicitly identifies medication as one of the risk areas requiring assessment.
This creates a strong case for connecting medication management and polypharmacy with functional outcomes.
A medication review should not be understood merely as reducing the number of prescriptions. The question is whether the overall regimen remains appropriate to the person's current health, goals, cognition, ability to manage medicines and risk profile.
For somebody whose blood-pressure treatment contributes to postural hypotension, for example, preventing a fall may require clinical adjustment rather than simply advising greater caution at home.
This illustrates a wider principle: effective prevention frequently depends on multiple professionals seeing the same person through a functional lens.
Rehabilitation is prevention after deterioration has begun
Prevention is sometimes presented as activity that occurs before illness. In long-term care, that definition is too narrow.
An older person who loses function after a stroke, fracture, pneumonia or surgery has already experienced deterioration, but their eventual level of dependency is not necessarily fixed.
Israel's National Health Insurance Law 1994 anchors the right to medical rehabilitation, with the person's health plan responsible for arranging rehabilitation according to clinical and functional need. Ministry of Health guidance emphasizes that rehabilitation should be individually adapted to medical condition, functional status, personal preferences, available options and the circumstances of the person's place of residence.
The long-term care significance is substantial. Without appropriate rehabilitation, an acute episode can create enduring dependency that might otherwise have been reduced.
This makes restorative and independence-focused care a bridge between healthcare and long-term support.
Yet the effectiveness of rehabilitation depends on timing and continuity. Improvement achieved in a rehabilitation setting can be lost if the person returns to an inaccessible home, becomes inactive, cannot continue exercises or receives care that routinely performs tasks for them rather than supporting retained ability.
Long-term care services therefore influence whether rehabilitation gains endure.
Operational scenario: discharge is not the end of recovery
A 76-year-old man is admitted to hospital with pneumonia after previously living independently with his wife. During admission he becomes markedly deconditioned. He can walk only short distances and needs assistance with dressing when discharge planning begins.
If his condition is interpreted simply as a new permanent baseline, the likely response is to organize continuing assistance around the tasks he can no longer perform.
A restorative pathway asks a different question: which losses are potentially reversible?
His health plan arranges rehabilitation. Mobility improves, but he still needs support when he returns home. The crucial operational decision is how that support is delivered. If family members and paid caregivers automatically take over dressing, bathing and movement because doing so is quicker, opportunities for continued recovery diminish.
Instead, the home routine reinforces rehabilitation goals. Support is calibrated to what he can safely attempt. His wife understands why allowing additional time for him to perform tasks himself is part of recovery. Function is reviewed rather than assuming that the first post-hospital assessment represents a permanent entitlement level.
Over the following months, he regains sufficient independence to require substantially less assistance.
The scenario shows why rehabilitation outcomes should remain visible after the formal rehabilitation episode ends. Hospital, health-plan and community support pathways are administratively distinct, but the person's recovery is continuous.
Organizations examining comparable transitions can use the Quality Improvement Action Plan Builder to structure improvement work where recurring handover problems are identified. It does not prescribe Israeli rehabilitation practice; its value lies in helping translate identified system gaps into accountable actions and review.
Preventing cognitive decline requires a broader public-health horizon
Dementia will remain one of the major drivers of long-term care need even where physical health improves.
There is no credible prevention strategy that can guarantee an individual will not develop dementia. But evidence increasingly supports action on modifiable risk factors across the life course, and Israel's Ministry of Health provides public guidance on physical activity, nutrition and other measures associated with cognitive health.
Its guidance emphasizes regular physical exercise for cardiovascular health, strength and balance, while also connecting activity with cognition, mental wellbeing and reduced fall risk. Nutritional guidance similarly links healthy dietary patterns with broader cardiovascular and cognitive risk.
The important policy point is that dementia prevention cannot sit solely inside specialist dementia services.
Cardiovascular risk management, physical activity, hearing, social connection, education and healthy environments all influence the conditions within which cognitive aging occurs. A dementia-capable system therefore needs both excellent support after diagnosis and credible population-level action before diagnosis.
Nor should prevention language stigmatize people who develop dementia. Risk is probabilistic, not a moral judgment about lifestyle. Many people who live healthily will still develop cognitive impairment, while structural factors influence whether individuals have realistic opportunities to exercise, eat well, remain socially connected and access preventive healthcare.
Housing can convert impairment into dependency—or preserve independence
Aging at home is sustainable only when the home supports the person who lives there.
Israel's Ministry of Health notes that many falls occur at home and recommends environmental measures including appropriate lighting, removal of trip hazards, safe bathroom arrangements and accessible placement of commonly used items.
These may sound like modest interventions, but their long-term care significance is considerable.
An older person with reduced balance may remain independent in a well-designed apartment with appropriate handrails and accessible bathing. The same person in an unsuitable home may require assistance every time they wash or negotiate stairs.
The built environment therefore changes the amount of care required for a given level of impairment.
This is especially relevant in a country with substantial variation in housing stock, neighborhood infrastructure and local resources. Prevention cannot be reduced to individual behavior while environmental barriers remain unaddressed.
Accessible housing, safe streets, nearby services, transportation and places for physical and social activity are part of the infrastructure of independence.
Local authorities make prevention tangible in everyday life
National policy can define preventive priorities, but many determinants of functional independence exist locally.
Israel's National Fall Prevention Program recognizes this by including collaboration with local authorities and connecting with initiatives such as Healthy Cities. Local authorities can influence opportunities for physical activity, community participation, accessible public space, nutrition initiatives and outreach to residents who might otherwise remain invisible until needs escalate.
This creates a different model of prevention from a clinical referral pathway.
A person does not need a diagnosis to benefit from a walking group, accessible community center, age-friendly public space or social activity. These forms of community infrastructure can reach people before they identify themselves as patients or long-term care recipients.
The strongest opportunity lies in connecting such activity with preventive value and early intervention without medicalizing ordinary community life.
Local prevention should not become a screening exercise in which every older resident is treated as a collection of risks. The aim is to create conditions that make healthy and connected aging easier while ensuring routes into professional support exist when warning signs emerge.
Operational scenario: preventing isolation from becoming functional decline
A widowed 79-year-old man remains physically capable but has gradually stopped leaving his apartment. He no longer attends the community activities he previously enjoyed, eats irregularly and has become noticeably weaker.
No single event triggers a conventional long-term care response. He has not fallen, been hospitalized or applied for a dependency benefit.
A local outreach initiative identifies the change. The initial response is social rather than medical: supported reconnection with nearby activity and regular contact. But concerns about weight loss and weakness are also communicated through appropriate channels, leading to assessment by his health plan.
Nutrition, medication and physical function are reviewed. He begins structured activity appropriate to his ability and gradually resumes independent trips outside the home.
The intervention cannot prove that he would otherwise have become dependent. Prevention rarely offers that certainty at individual level. What can be evidenced is the change in intermediate outcomes: improved activity, nutrition, strength, social participation and confidence.
At population level, those measures help local and national decision-makers judge whether preventive infrastructure is reaching people before formal care demand emerges.
The Community Impact Report Builder can help organizations structure this type of evidence around reach, participation and outcomes. It is not an Israeli public reporting framework, but it illustrates how community activity can be evaluated without reducing its value to service volume alone.
Families are prevention partners, but they cannot become the prevention system
Families often notice functional change first.
A daughter sees that her father is holding furniture while walking. A spouse notices confusion with medication. A son realizes that his mother has stopped cooking after losing weight. These observations can be more revealing than a short clinical encounter.
Israel's Ministry of Health explicitly encourages family members and caregivers to discuss fall risk, support appropriate physical activity, help arrange examinations and improve home safety.
Family involvement therefore has genuine preventive value.
But prevention policy should not assume unlimited family capacity. Expecting relatives to supervise exercise, provide transportation, manage appointments, modify homes and monitor deterioration can transfer substantial work from formal services into households.
The balance is especially important where a spouse is themselves old or where adult children combine care with employment and childcare.
Prevention should strengthen family capacity rather than quietly depend upon it.
Prevention becomes harder where access is unequal
A prevention strategy can inadvertently widen inequality if the people most able to participate are already healthier, wealthier and better connected.
Regular exercise is easier when neighborhoods are walkable and safe. Nutritious food is easier to maintain when income, mobility and local availability permit it. Digital prevention tools work best for people with devices, connectivity and confidence. Specialist assessment is easier to access when services are nearby and culturally and linguistically appropriate.
Israel's population diversity therefore matters operationally.
Older Arab citizens, Haredi communities, immigrants, people living in peripheral areas, people with disabilities and people experiencing poverty do not necessarily encounter the same preventive opportunities or barriers. Variation exists within each population, so these groups should not be treated as homogeneous, but national averages can obscure important differences.
This is where prevention intersects with health inequities and access barriers.
Equity-focused governance needs to examine who preventive programs reach, who completes them, whose function improves and who continues to appear only after crisis.
The question is not simply whether an intervention exists nationally. It is whether people can use it in practice.
Technology can extend prevention without replacing human observation
Digital health creates new possibilities for detecting deterioration and supporting independence.
Wearable devices can potentially contribute information about activity or mobility. Remote monitoring may identify changes that warrant attention. Digital exercise programs can support activity between professional contacts. Shared information can help clinicians recognize patterns across repeated falls, medication changes or healthcare use.
Israel's strong digital-health infrastructure creates favorable conditions for this type of development, while the National Fall Prevention Program itself includes an ambition to develop digital solutions and improve information coordination.
But preventive technology requires careful governance.
A stream of data has little value if nobody is responsible for interpreting it or acting when a threshold is reached. Excessive alerts can create additional workload. Monitoring inside the home raises questions about privacy and consent. Algorithms trained on incomplete populations may perform unevenly across communities.
Digital prevention should therefore be judged by whether it improves a real pathway rather than by the sophistication of the technology.
Organizations considering comparable models can use the Digital Transformation, AI and Cybersecurity Readiness Assessment to examine governance, infrastructure and organizational readiness before introducing technology-enabled care. It is not a substitute for Israeli privacy, health-information or professional requirements.
Operational scenario: detecting deterioration through change rather than crisis
An 84-year-old man with heart disease and mild mobility impairment normally walks outside every day. His family lives in another city, but he remains independent and strongly wishes to stay in his own home.
Over several weeks, his activity declines. A digitally supported community program identifies a sustained reduction rather than a single emergency threshold.
The technology does not diagnose the cause. Instead, it prompts human review.
Contact reveals that he has become breathless and has also stopped attending his usual social activity. Clinical assessment identifies a change in his health requiring treatment. His medication is reviewed, and temporary support is arranged while he recovers.
The value of the technology lies not in replacing his family physician, nurse or family. It has made a meaningful change visible earlier.
Governance is equally important. The system needs clear consent, defined responsibility for responding to alerts, a route for escalation and a process for reviewing false positives or missed deterioration.
If hundreds of alerts are generated but action is inconsistent, the technology creates data rather than prevention.
Measuring prevention requires more than counting interventions
Prevention is difficult to govern because its most important outcome is often something that does not happen.
A fall avoided leaves no hospital record. A year of independence preserved does not create a new service episode. Delayed long-term care entry is difficult to attribute to one intervention because function reflects health, behavior, housing, family and environment simultaneously.
That makes simplistic claims about avoided costs dangerous.
A stronger evidence framework uses several levels of measurement. It can track reach and participation, but also intermediate outcomes such as strength, balance, nutrition, social connection, confidence and functional ability. Longer-term measures can then examine falls, hospital use, rehabilitation, dependency levels and entry into more intensive support.
National and local governance should also examine distribution. An apparently successful program may be reinforcing inequality if uptake is concentrated among already advantaged groups.
This connects prevention with outcomes frameworks and indicators.
The objective is not to prove that every preventive intervention saves money. Some interventions are worthwhile because they improve health, autonomy or quality of life even if they do not generate a cashable saving elsewhere.
Economic value should be assessed proportionately rather than becoming the sole justification for supporting independence.
Prevention needs governance across organizational boundaries
Israel's prevention architecture crosses institutional lines.
The Ministry of Health can establish national direction and professional guidance. Health plans deliver much of the population's healthcare and rehabilitation. The National Insurance Institute finances substantial long-term care support. Local authorities influence community environments and social provision. Providers deliver formal assistance. Families contribute observation, coordination and care.
No single organization controls the entire functional trajectory.
That makes shared governance essential. Decision-makers need to know where deterioration is becoming visible, whether people are reaching preventive services, whether rehabilitation gains are sustained and whether some communities experience systematically later intervention.
The National Fall Prevention Program demonstrates elements of this cross-system approach through Ministry leadership, health-plan incentives, local-authority involvement, professional training, research and planned data development.
The larger opportunity is to apply similar thinking beyond falls.
Organizations examining the maturity of comparable cross-sector arrangements can use the Governance Maturity Assessment to structure questions about responsibility, escalation, evidence and learning. Its relevance is methodological rather than regulatory: Israel's own ministries, health plans and statutory institutions remain responsible for their respective functions.
Prevention should influence long-term care financing
Prevention becomes strategically important when financial planning recognizes its effect on future demand.
Israel's long-term care system already spends substantial resources after functional dependency has been assessed. National Insurance benefits support eligible people living in the community, while other public and household resources finance health care, rehabilitation and institutional support.
If preventive investment can preserve independence, part of its value may appear later in a different budget.
A health plan that funds effective rehabilitation may reduce subsequent personal-care dependency. A local authority investing in accessible community infrastructure may contribute to outcomes reflected in healthcare or National Insurance expenditure. A family-supported home adaptation may prevent a fall whose costs would otherwise appear in hospital and rehabilitation budgets.
This creates the familiar problem of fragmented incentives.
The organization paying for prevention may not capture the financial benefit. Stronger planning therefore needs a whole-pathway understanding of long-term system impact.
That does not require every preventive program to be funded from one national pool. It requires fiscal analysis capable of seeing beyond organizational boundaries.
Prevention must coexist with rights, choice and positive risk
There is also an ethical boundary to prevention.
A system committed to reducing falls can become overly restrictive if risk reduction is treated as the overriding objective. An older person may value walking outside alone despite some risk. A person with dementia may gain meaning from movement and community participation even when those activities cannot be made completely safe.
Maintaining independence therefore requires proportionate risk management rather than elimination of all risk.
Israel's Ministry of Health guidance for people with advanced dementia reflects this principle by emphasizing preservation of mobility and independence according to the person's condition while managing environmental hazards.
Preventive practice should ask what enables the person to continue living the life they value safely enough, not simply what minimizes the probability of an adverse event.
This distinction becomes especially important when families and professionals disagree about acceptable risk.
The Positive Risk Enablement Planner can help organizations in other contexts structure conversations about autonomy, benefit, foreseeable harm and proportionate safeguards. It does not determine Israeli legal or clinical decisions, but the underlying balance between independence and protection is internationally relevant.
The future opportunity is a functional-health strategy for aging
Israel has many of the components needed for a stronger preventive approach: universal health coverage, longitudinal health-plan relationships, rehabilitation entitlement, national prevention initiatives, local-authority infrastructure, strong digital capabilities and substantial family and community involvement.
The challenge is connecting them around a common outcome.
That outcome should not be the absence of disease. It should be the preservation of functional ability, autonomy and participation for as long as reasonably possible.
This would change the strategic conversation about aging. Health services would consider function alongside disease control. Rehabilitation would be judged partly by whether gains survive the transition home. Long-term care would reinforce retained abilities rather than automatically substituting for them. Housing and local environments would be recognized as determinants of care demand. Data would identify deterioration before crisis as well as record dependency afterward.
Over time, this could also improve forecasting. Rather than projecting future long-term care demand only from the number of older people, planners could examine trends in frailty, functional limitation, falls, cognitive impairment, rehabilitation outcomes and healthy life expectancy.
Population aging would remain a major structural reality. But the number of years people spend needing intensive assistance would become a variable that policy seeks to influence rather than simply an inevitable consequence of longevity.
International learning lies in connecting prevention to care capacity
Israel's institutional arrangements are not directly transferable. Its health plans, National Insurance system, local-government structures and particular patterns of family and paid caregiving reflect national history and policy choices.
The broader lesson is more portable.
Countries frequently plan prevention and long-term care in separate policy domains. Public health tries to reduce disease; healthcare treats illness; rehabilitation restores function; social and long-term care respond to dependency. The person experiences none of these boundaries so neatly.
The transferable principle is to organize those activities around functional trajectories.
That means recognizing that a fall, hospitalization, medication problem, inaccessible bathroom or loss of social connection can each alter future care demand. It also means accepting that preventing dependency is not synonymous with preventing aging or disability.
Other systems could adapt this principle without replicating Israel's mechanisms: invest earlier, detect change sooner, restore function aggressively where realistic, adapt environments, support families and measure whether people remain able to do what matters to them.
Conclusion
Israel's long-term care challenge will not be solved only by expanding the amount of care available after dependency develops. As longevity increases, the trajectory into dependency becomes equally important.
The country already has important preventive foundations. The National Fall Prevention Program connects clinical assessment with rehabilitation, home safety, local authorities, professional practice and data. Health plans provide a route for early identification and rehabilitation. Public-health guidance addresses physical activity, nutrition and cognitive health. Families and communities contribute knowledge and support that formal services cannot reproduce.
The stronger direction is to connect these elements around functional independence. Prevention should identify emerging deterioration before crisis, restore ability after acute illness, reduce avoidable risks without restricting ordinary life and ensure that housing and community environments enable people to use the abilities they retain. It should also reach populations for whom preventive opportunities are less accessible rather than widening existing inequalities.
Not every case of dependency can or should be prevented. Aging policy needs to support people well when substantial disability occurs. But delaying avoidable decline by even relatively short periods across a growing older population can improve quality of life, reduce caregiver pressure and change future demand for intensive care.
For Israel, prevention is therefore more than a health-promotion agenda. Properly connected to rehabilitation, community infrastructure, long-term care and financing, it becomes part of how the country builds sustainable capacity for a longer-living society.