Forecasts predict that those in need of long-term care in Europe will double in the next 50 years. This book offers a … demand and supply factors underpinning the development of financial instruments to cover long-term care in Europe …

households in Western Europe, 1890-1960. To do this we exploit data extracted from a large number of newly digitised household …. For some we have the original household data, but in most cases we have tables by income group. One by-product of this … grouped data. Our central finding is that inequality among working households does not follow the general downward trend in …

other areas of social protection for old age. In Europe, any moves to broaden entitlements to LTC are impeded by increasing …

equity issues related to the provision of home care services across three macro-areas in Europe which are highly …-country comparative micro-data from SHARE (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) survey, we estimate and decompose an …), measuring the contribution of income, needs and non-needs factors to overall inequality. We base the decomposition on a …