We study the effect of ageing, defined an extra year of life, on health care utilisation. We disentangle the direct … effect of ageing, from other alternative explanations such as the presence of comorbidities and endogenous time to death (TTD …) that are argued to absorb the effect of ageing ( so-called 'red herring' hypothesis). We exploit individual level end of …

We study the effect of ageing, defined an extra year of life, on health care utilisation. We disentangle the direct … effect of ageing, from other alternative explanations such as the presence of comorbidities and endogenous time to death (TTD …) that are argued to absorb the effect of ageing (so-called "red herring" hypothesis). We exploit individual level end of …

Population ageing is associated with increasing healthcare expenditure. To guide policy and the adaptation of health … systems, however, a more accurate understanding of the quantitative effect of different components of ageing and other factors … indicators for the size of the labour force. All our scenarios indicate that demographic ageing is likely to increase future …