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| The new long-term care insurance program in Germany | | Author(s) | Adalbert Evers |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging & Social Policy, vol 10, no 1, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 77-98 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Organisation of care ; Services ; Health services ; Long term ; Insurance [elderly] ; Health insurance ; Germany. |
| Annotation | The Long-Term Care Insurance Programme (LTCI) which has been operational in Germany since 1995, and the policy issues leading to its enactment are described. After discussing similarities and differences with the traditional German social insurance-centred welfare system and some of the weaknesses of the new programme, two issues are discussed in more detail: entitlement criteria and reimbursement rules and the ways they influence the conditions and quality of professional care delivered; and the impact of cash as an alternative choice to services. The descriptive and evaluative sections use existing reports; the second section is based, in addition, on a pilot study by the author, which looks at reasons why so many people entitled to LTCI choose the cash alternative. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990120248 A |
| Classmark | P: I: L: 4Q: JG: WPG: 767 |
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