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 …

Background Offering patients in oncology trials the opportunity to cross over to active
treatment at disease progression is a common strategy to address ethical issues associated …

Informal care should be a substitute for nursing homes but empirical evidence often
suggests the opposite. This may be because informal care receipt is positively correlated …

This paper demonstrates the consequences of changes in mortality and health transition
rates for changes in both health status life expectancy and the prevalence of health …

This article examines the effects of the characteristics specified in the behavioral model of
health services utilization and measured at baseline on the subsequent risk of nursing home …

Discrete-time hazard functions were estimated to determine factors associated with the
probability of admission to a nursing home from the community, and the probability of …

Theoretically, when asymmetric information exists, nonprofit organizations, due to the
attenuation of the property right, provide better quality of service than do the for-profits …

We propose a dynamic non-cooperative framework for long-term-care (LTC) decisions of
families and use it to evaluate LTC policy options for the US We first document the …

In recent years the field of family demography has developed rapidly. These developments
include theoretical and methodological advancements and an especially rapid growth of …

This paper analyses the impact of Medicaid home care benefits on the probability of nursing
home entry and the use of formal and informal home care by disabled elderly remaining in …