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| "User pays" and other approaches to the funding of long-term care for older people in Australia | | Author(s) | Michael Fine, Jenny Chalmers |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 20, part 1, January 2000 |
| Pages | pp 5-32 |
| Keywords | Finance [care] ; Services ; Long term ; Nursing homes ; Care homes ; Insurance [elderly] ; Social policy ; Australia. |
| Annotation | It has been argued that without some system to which future generations of users are able to pay for their care, the cost of services for an increasingly large group of older people will be borne by a declining base of economically active younger people. Is the answer a user pays approach to the financing of aged care? This paper draws on a report written for the New South Wales (NSW) Committee on Ageing, and reviews the "user pays" concept and its recent history in Australia. On the basis of a brief review of alternative funding systems, it also considers the potential of public and private insurance schemes to increase funding by potential service users and underwrite the long-term viability of funding for aged care services. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000307201 A |
| Classmark | QC: I: 4Q: LHB: KW: JG: TM2: 7YA |
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