As the aging population increases, the demand for informal caregiving is becoming an ever
more important concern for researchers and policy-makers alike. To shed light on the …

Although the consequences of population aging for growth in health expenditures have
been widely investigated, research on this topic is rather fragmented. Therefore, these …

The Economics of Health and Health Care is the market-leading health economics textbook,
providing comprehensive coverage of all the key topics, and balancing economic theory …

OBJECTIVES: To enable prevention of poor outcome in elderly people, a valid instrument is
required to detect individuals at high risk. The concept of frailty is a better predictor than age …

Background Dementia and frailty often accompany one another in older age, requiring
complex care and resources. Available projections provide little information on their joint …

Following Reher's (1998) seminal paper on family ties in western Europe, the perspective
that family solidarity patterns are divided between an individualistic north and a famialistic …

Evidence for the effectiveness of patient education programmes in changing individual self-
management behaviour is equivocal. More distal elements of personal social relationships …

For every person over the age of 65 in today's European Union, there are four people of
working age but, by 2050, there will only be two. Demand for long-term care, of which home …

Background At a time when health and social care services in European countries are under
pressure to contain or cut costs, informal carers are relied upon as the main providers of …

In view of population aging, better understanding of what drives long-term care expenditure
(LTCE) is warranted. Time-to-death (TTD) has commonly been used to project LTCE …