American families and a major challenge to the sustainability of Medicaid. To address the latter, the long-term care … eligible for Medicaid to pay her LTSS expenses, and thereby reduce Medicaid expenditures. This paper exploits two unique … progressive development of the LTCP, we identify differences in trends in insurance uptake and Medicaid long-term care …

During the period 1974-1999 the percentage of elderly living with their children in Greece reduced from 55 per cent to … elderly people and their adult children and its implications for economic well-being. We find that the main factor that has … important force driving the increase in the independent living among the elderly Greeks throughout the period under examination …

Do wealth shocks affect the health of the elderly in developed countries? The economic literature is skeptical about …