insurance (LTCI), formal care, informal (family) care, and bequests. In our empirical analysis, we use micro data from the Japan …The purpose of this paper is to conduct a theoretical and empirical analysis of the nexus between long-term care … leave bequests to their children in order to elicit care from them) and that the introduction of a public LTCI system will …

Elderly's use of long-term care (LTC) services are likely to be influenced by family members, but there is scarce … the role played by family members for elderly's use of LTC services. …