hospital patients (65 years and older) in Brazil and Mexico. We develop a continuum-of-care conceptual framework based on prior …-discharge medical and social care services. There are three main sources of prolonged stays: (i) lack of appropriate primary healthcare …-term care at discharge. We estimate the count and share of inappropriate hospital days due to prolonged stays overall and for …

The purpose of this paper is to conduct a theoretical and empirical analysis of the nexus between long-term care … insurance (LTCI), formal care, informal (family) care, and bequests. In our empirical analysis, we use micro data from the Japan … leave bequests to their children in order to elicit care from them) and that the introduction of a public LTCI system will …

This paper investigates how the type of home environment – family foster care or residential care – affects the adult … outcomes of individuals who were raised in state care during adolescence. While it is established in the literature that living … in residential care is detrimental for babies, the effect of living in different types of care as an older child is …

We study the design of optimal (private and/or social) insurance schemes for formal home care and institutional care … dependent individuals can buy formal home care which reduces the severity of dependency and reduces the probability to become … severely dependent in the next period. Severely dependent individuals pay for nursing home care. In both states of dependency …

We study the design of optimal (private and/or social) insurance schemes for formal home care and institutional care … dependent individuals can buy formal home care which reduces the severity of dependency and reduces the probability to become … severely dependent in the next period. Severely dependent individuals pay for nursing home care. In both states of dependency …