SUZUKI, WATARU; OGURA, SEIRITSU; IZUMIDA, NOBUYUKI - In: The Singapore Economic Review (SER) 53 (2008) 01, pp. 121-144
Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI), introduced in Japan in 2000, is rapidly turning into a system of rationed benefits due to financial difficulty. Based on our survey of 2,530 family care-givers and the Zarit Care-Giver Burden Index, we have examined how LTCI is affecting their subjective burden....