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Exploring shared options in funding long-term care for older people
Author(s)	Judith A Davey
Journal title	Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 6, no 3, May 1998
Pages	pp 151-157
Keywords	Services ; Health services ; Community care ; Long term ; Finance [care] ; Social security benefits ; Health insurance ; Home equity release schemes ; United Kingdom ; International.
Annotation	Policy-makers throughout the world are faced with the question of how long-term care for dependent older people is to be funded. This paper discusses possible sources of funding and a variety of policy approaches which have been taken by members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), with particular emphasis on the United Kingdom (UK). It concentrates on options which share costs between the users (and their families) and the state. Details are provided of schemes involving private sector insurance and equity release products. A variety of issues arise from the proposed use of such `partnership' schemes in the UK. Discussion of these issues draws in aspects of the wider social and policy contexts. (AKM).
Accession Number	CPA-980821401 A
Classmark	I: L: PA: 4Q: QC: JH: WPG: WQB: 8: 72
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