Long-Term Care around the World (inbunden)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Serie
National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
Antal sidor
512
Utgivningsdatum
2025-05-14
Förlag
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN
9780226838434

Long-Term Care around the World

av Jonathan Gruber, Kathleen McGarry
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A comparative analysis of both formal and informal long-term care in ten of the world's wealthiest countries. Nations throughout the world are in the midst of an enormous demographic transition, with life expectancy increasing and fertility falling, leading to a rapidly aging population and critical implications for long-term care around the world. This volume documents and compares long-term care programs in ten wealthy countries. Analyses of survey data and government statistics show that the costs of long-term care are beyond the financial means of a large fraction of the elderly population in most countries, particularly the oldest and most disabled. As a result, public systems bear most of the cost of formal long-term care, such as care in an institution or paid home care. Most countries spend more on nursing homes than on home care, but this relationship varies widely as does the mix of care needs and resources used to define eligibility for public funding. At the same time, most care is provided informally through family or unpaid caregivers. The costs of informal care, including the foregone earnings of caregivers, are estimated to account for at least one-third of all long-term care spending in every country. Thus, any estimate of the social costs of long-term care must account for the implicit costs of informal care.
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Jonathan Gruber, Kathleen McGarry

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Jonathan Gruber is the Ford Professor of Economics and head of the Economics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.¿Kathleen McGarry is a professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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