ADVANCED AGE AND DISABLED HEALTH TOURISM CONCEPT, PROBLEMS AND SOLUTION SUGGESTIONS

Disabled health tourism, which is one of the sub-branches of health tourism, is in the development stage as a sector. The number of people with disability is a considerable amount of in the world and Turkey is substantial degree. The increase in life expectancy at birth increases the elderly population, an increase in the prevalence of chronic diseases and disability. With this increase, there is an increase in the demand for service procurement and the costs to be incurred. In this study, the definition of elderly and disabled tourism in the world and Turkey, the detection of needs by presenting the current situation with demographic and other health indicators, national and discussion of the issue in the presence of international literature and aimed to present proposals for the improvement of elderly and disabled tourism in Turkey. As