This paper was prepared as Work Package IV of the AHEAD project – Ageing, Health Status and the Determinants of Health Expenditure – which has received financing from the European Commission under the 6th Research Framework Programme. The purpose of this work package was to build up a...

Rationale: There is international evidence that the bulk of people's lifetime health expenditure concentrates in the last years or months before death, independent of the deceased person's age. In the present paper we calculate these so called death-related costs for the Austrian public sector....

Expected future demographic and societal shifts have put the improvement of quality and efficiency of long-term-care (LTC) systems on the agenda of virtually every EU member state, last but not least in order to support its long-term financial sustainability. Research to support the reform...