Mitchell, Olivia S; Piggott, John; Shimizutani, Satoshi - In: The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and … 33 (2008) 4, pp. 694-709
The recently enacted Japanese long-term care (LTC) system was implemented to reduce the so-called “social hospitalization” or warehousing of the elderly in expensive medical facilities. This paper seeks to evaluate recent patterns in Japanese LTC use and examine the factors associated with...
