for Austria. Second, it extends the scarce literature explicitly focusing on the combined use of informal and formal care … formal and informal home care in Austria, with the health status and functional limitations as the main determinants of … interdependencies in these types of long-term care. Our results provide strong evidence for a taskspecific and complementary relation of …

for Austria. Second, it extends the scarce literature explicitly focusing on the combined use of informal and formal care … formal and informal home care in Austria, with the health status and functional limitations as the main determinants of … interdependencies in these types of long-term care. Our results provide strong evidence for a taskspecific and complementary relation of …

-term care, primarily among the elderly. It also reviews the main features and problems with insurance markets and quality of …This chapter summarizes the recent economic literature on health and long-term care as it relates to population aging … for long-term care. Both the supply side and the demand side of the health care markets are undergoing change. This …

Physicians and pharmacists in Taiwan both prescribed and dispensed drugs; many elderly people considered the two types … of providers to some extent substitutable. This paper studies effects of two policies in the 1990s on elderly people … that by providing an economic incentive to the previously uninsured elderly, NHI largely raised their probability of …

Canadians expect the same access to health care whether they are rich or poor, and wherever they live, often without … direct charge at the point of service. However, we find that the private cost of long-term care differs greatly across the … in Quebec, while a couple with one in care would pay almost four times as much in Newfoundland as in Alberta. -- long …

, education, psychosocial support, and improved decision-making regarding life planning, health care, and financial matters. Yet …

analyses suggest informal caregiving as the most likely mechanism. The effect is muted after a liberalization of the formal … increase care dependency abruptly. Our estimation strategy exploits the variation in the timing of shocks across treated … care market, which sharply increased the supply of foreign care workers. …

analyses suggest informal caregiving as the most likely mechanism. The effect is muted after a liberalization of the formal … increase care dependency abruptly. Our estimation strategy exploits the variation in the timing of shocks across treated … care market, which sharply increased the supply of foreign care workers. …

analyses suggest informal caregiving as the most likely mechanism. The effect is muted after a liberalization of the formal … increase care dependency abruptly. Our estimation strategy exploits the variation in the timing of shocks across treated … care market, which sharply increased the supply of foreign care workers. …