Informal caregivers, often family members, provide valuable services to elderly persons with long-term care needs. However, the time commitment of caregiving often competes against time spent in the labor force. In addition to the momentary trade-off, long-term consequences are possible since...

Growing long-term care (LTC) needs represent a major challenge for our aging societies. Understanding how utilization patterns of different types of care are influenced by LTC policies or changes in the population composition such as age patterns or health can provide helpful insight on how to...

Zum Jahresbeginn 2017 wurde mit der zweiten und dritten Stufe des Pflegestärkungsgesetzes nach langjähriger Diskussion die bisher umfassendste Reform der sozialen Pflegeversicherung umgesetzt. Stefan Greß und Klaus Stegmüller, Hochschule Fulda, sehen in der Neufassung des...

Many countries limit public and private reimbursement for nursing care costs for social or financial reasons. Still, quality varies across nursing homes. We explore the causal link between case‐mix adjusted nurse staffing ratios as an indicator of care quality and different price components in...

Many studies have shown that childhood circumstances can have long term consequences that persist until old age. To better understand the transmission of early life circumstances, this paper analyses the effects of health and financial situation during childhood on quality of life after...