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Consumer direction and choice in long-term care for older persons, including payments for informal care
— how can it help improve care outcomes, employment and fiscal sustainability? | | Author(s) | Jens Lundsgaard |
| Corporate Author | Group on Health, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - OECD |
| Publisher | OECD, Paris, 2005 |
| Pages | 49 pp (OECD health working papers, no 30) (DELSA/HEA/WD/HWP/(2005)1) |
| Source | Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD, 2 rue André-Pascal, 75775 PARIS CEDEX, France. OECD website: www.oecd.org Available as pdf: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/53/62/34897775.pdf |
| Keywords | Services ; Health services ; Long term ; Informal care ; Finance [care] ; Consumer choice ; Social policy ; International. |
| Annotation | This paper reports the detailed results of research on choice carried out as part of the long-term care study under the OECD Health Project. One of its main aims is to categorise and analyse different types of arrangements allowing home-care users more choice. Another is to review outcomes in terms of flexibility, care quality, satisfaction and conditions for caregivers. The implications for employment and sustainability are complex. While a public supply of formal care services would allow relatives of older people in need of care to maintain their attachment to the normal labour market, a system of payments for informal care could make it difficult for informal caregivers to get back into paid work. The answer may lie with the the growing number of healthy retired people who represent a potentially valuable resource as informal caregivers. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050802501 B |
| Classmark | I: L: 4Q: P6: QC: WYC: TM2: 72 |
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