This chapter summarizes recent theoretical and empirical economic research on long-term
care. Long-term care differs from acute medical care in four fundamental ways. Long-term …

This text is the result of 18 years of teaching a course in health insurance and managed care
to both master's and doctoral students. The course has been presented in a variety of …

In several OECD countries the percentage of elderly in long-term care institutions has been
declining as a result of ageing-in-place. However, due to the rapid ageing of population in …

The Netherlands is one of the few countries that offer generous universal public coverage of
long‐term care (LTC). Does this ensure that the Dutch elderly with similar care needs …

Objective. Public e-penditures for home health care grew rapidly in the 1990s, but it remains
unclear to whom the additional services were targeted. This study tests whether the rapidly …

In this study, the authors present findings from 306 resident interviews matched with 306
family member interviews examining factors associated with both the search for and …

This article develops a new estimation method that accounts for excess demand and the
unobserved component of product quality. We apply our method to study the Wisconsin …

Objectives Japan has had high rates of transition to nursing homes from other long term care
facilities. It has been hypothesized that care transitions occur because a resident's condition …

This paper investigates the effects of privately purchased long-term care insurance (LTCI) on
three major types of long-term care services: nursing home care, paid home care, and …

Background The ageing of the population has become an escalating problem in China,
which has led to an increasing demand for healthcare throughout society. The care services …