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Modelling an entitlement to long-term care services for older people in Europe
— projections for long-term care expenditure to 2050 | | Author(s) | Linda Pickard, Adelina Comas-Herrera, Joan Costa-Font |
| Journal title | Journal of European Social Policy, vol 17, no 1, February 2007 |
| Pages | pp 33-48 |
| Source | http://esp.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Domiciliary services ; Long term ; Insurance [elderly] ; Public expenditure ; Mathematical models ; Cross national surveys ; Germany ; Italy ; Spain ; United Kingdom. |
| Annotation | As the numbers of older people in Europe increase, the importance of long-term care services in terms of numbers of users and expenditures can be expected to grow. This article examines the implications for expenditure in four countries of a national entitlement to long-term care services for all older people, based on assessed dependency. It is based on a European Commission-funded cross-national study, which makes projections to 2030 of long-term care expenditure in Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK. The policy option investigated is based on the German long-term care insurance scheme, which embodies the principle of an entitlement on uniform national criteria to long-term care benefits. The research models this key principle of the German system on the other three participating countries with respect to home care services. The study finds that, if all moderately or severely dependent older people receive an entitlement to formal (in-kind) home care, the impact on expenditure could be considerable, but would vary greatly between countries. The impact on long-term care expenditure is found to be the least in Germany, where there is already an entitlement to benefits, and the greatest in Spain, where reliance on informal care is widespread. The policy implications of these results are discussed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070508522 A |
| Classmark | N: 4Q: JG: WN8: 3LM: 3K: 767: 76V: 76S: 8 |
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