Winner of the 2022 Textbook & Academic Authors Association′ s The McGuffey Longevity
Award Aging: Concepts and Controversies is structured to encourage a style of teaching and …

In this paper data from the National Mortality Followback Survey and the National Nursing
Home Survey are used to estimate the lifetime cost of nursing home care. The expected …

Responses to the growing crisis in long‐term care financing have included efforts to
negotiate partnerships between the private and public sectors for the purpose of developing …

First published in 1998. While previous studies have explored factors affecting the utilization
of nursing home care by the elderly, few have used a nationally representative sample, and …

There are a number of proposals to expand substantially public financing of nursing home
care. Included among the major elements of these proposals are front-end benefits limited to …

The private long-term care insurance market has undergone rapid change in the last several
years. Although the quality of policies has generally improved, problems remain. Consumer …