-term care, primarily among the elderly. It also reviews the main features and problems with insurance markets and quality of …This chapter summarizes the recent economic literature on health and long-term care as it relates to population aging … for long-term care. Both the supply side and the demand side of the health care markets are undergoing change. This …

, health care, and retirement planning, all of which are very important for the well-being of the elderly. Our review suggests … that consumers in general, and the elderly in particular, have great difficulty making optimal choices in these areas. They …

formal nursing home care to the vast provision of informal care provided in the home. The taxonomy is followed by a review of … dominated by for-profit facilities sometimes facing excess demand, long-term care is often provided by unpaid caregivers, and … supply of informal care, usually by daughters, is an issue for labor economics. Women who provide informal care may reduce …

national policy, cost sharing is 60–80 percent lower at age 70 than at age 69. I find that both outpatient and inpatient care … are price sensitive among the elderly. While I find little impact on mortality and other health outcomes, the results show …

This paper offers an explanation for the puzzle of low wealth holdings among a significant fraction of the elderly …

Long-term care represents one of the largest uninsured financial risks facing the elderly in the United States. Whether … knowledge the first empirical evidence on the pricing and benefit structure of long-term care insurance policies. We estimate … benefit structure, covering only one-third of the expected present discounted value of long-term care expenditures. These …