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Long-term care (LTC) protection for older persons
— a review of coverage deficits in 46 countries |
| Author(s) | Xenia Scheil-Adlung |
| Corporate Author | International Labour Organization - ILO |
| Publisher | International Labour Organization, Geneva, 2015 |
| Pages | (Extension of social security series, Working paper no. 50) |
| Source | Download: http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_prot... |
| Keywords | Services ; Health services ; Long term ; Needs [elderly] ; Social security [generally] ; Public expenditure ; International. |
| Annotation | Due to the global demographic ageing, all countries are challenged by growing long-term care (LTC) needs for older people. However, these needs are largely ignored and range very low on the policy agendas of most countries. This paper has developed global estimates on LTC protection of people aged 65 and over. It examines long-term care (LTC) protection in 46 developing and developed countries covering 80% of the world's population, and provides data on LTC coverage for the population aged 65+. It identifies access deficits for older people due to the critical shortfall of formal LTC workers. It presents the impacts of insufficient public funding, the reliance on unpaid informal LTC workers and high out-of-pocket payments (OOP). It calls for recognising LTC as a right, and mainstreaming LTC as a priority. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-151009004 E |
| Classmark | I: L: 4Q: IK: TYA: WN8 72 |
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