Financing long-term care: lessons from abroad
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Issue in brief (Center for Retirement Research)
- Contributor(s):
- Gleckman, Howard. Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.
- Publication:
- Chestnut Hill, MA : Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, c2007
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Financing, Government -- organization & administration Financing, Personal -- organization & administration Long-Term Care -- economics Aged Disabled Persons Forecasting Health Expenditures Long-Term Care -- trends Medicaid -- economics Middle Aged Models, Organizational Private Sector Public Sector Humans Europe Japan United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- As the United States searches for ways to reform its system of financing long-term care, it may learn from the experiences of other developed nations. In Japan and much of Europe, public benefits for the long-term care of the aged have become a pillar of social policy, on par with retirement and health care. Many of these nations embarked on major reforms in their long-term care programs beginning in the mid-1990s. However, they have taken quite different approaches. This brief will review the experiences of Germany, Japan, France, and the United Kingdom and highlight potential lessons for the United States.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 9 leaves
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101470650 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101470650