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The population of the United States, as with the rest of the world, is aging rapidly, with the most rapid growth occurring among the age 85 and older population, those who rely most on long-term care. In this chapter, we review the delivery and financing of long-term care in the U.S. We show...
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Spain together with Scotland are two countries that exhibit the largest expansions in long term care (LTC) in the last two decades, universalizing subsidies and supports. This paper is part of a global effort to provide a snapshot of the trends in LTC use and access, as well as the financing,...
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The provision of long-term care (LTC) for senior citizens in Italy is at the center of the recent policy debate. Italy has witnessed a spectacular increase in the share of people aged 65 and over and in particular of people aged 80 and over, which could translate in large increases in the number...
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This chapter provides an overview of the German long-term care insurance. We document care needs and wellbeing of the elderly population. Moreover, we provide a detailed description of the German long-term care institutions (sources of finance and types of benefits), the professional care work...
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This paper contributes a broad overview of the Canadian long-term care system. Taking an economist's viewpoint, we bring together supply and demand factors to provide an economic analysis of the current and future path for long-term care. Like other OECD countries, the coming demographic wave of...
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. Our analysis shows that, in the case of Japan, if parents are eligible for public LTCI benefits, their children will be … less likely to be their primary caregiver and that this, in turn, will reduce their children's perceived likelihood of … leave bequests to their children in order to elicit care from them) and that the introduction of a public LTCI system will …
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the assistance provided to the parent by her adult children. The first stage determines the living arrangement: the parent …
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Using data on U.S. state and federal taxes and transfers over a quarter century, we estimate a regression model that yields the marginal effect of any shift of market income share from one quintile to another on the entire post tax, post-transfer income distribution. We identify exogenous income...
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This paper compares the impact of long term care (LTC) risk on single and married households and studies the roles played by informal care (IC), consumption sharing within households, and Medicaid in insuring this risk. We develop a life-cycle model where individuals face survival and health...
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increase as a substitute for reduced care, whether other adult children fill the care gap left by EITC-eligible daughters, and … and care gaps remain for older parents that are not filled by other children or paid care providers. We conclude that an … unintended consequence of the EITC is that the older parents of EITC recipients receive less care from their children overall in …
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