Europe's demographic shift is putting increasing pressure on long-term care (LTC) systems and raising concerns about … the sustainability of LTC financing. This paper analyses Austria's LTC system, particularly its universal long-term care …

Growing needs for long-term care coupled with a dwindling supply of nursing personnel is a common challenge for …

The German universal long-term care (LTC) insurance program offers beneficiaries the choice between in-kind services …

As populations in Asia and Europe face unprecedented levels of ageing, the demand for long-term care (LTC) is … the challenges posed by long-term care. The study acknowledges limitations related to data and modelling choices, and …

We leverage decades of administrative data and quasi-experimental variation in the introduction of universal long-term … care (LTC) insurance in Germany in 1995 to examine whether health insurance expansions can stimulate local economies. We …

health and long-term care insurance wealth in Austria and add that to conventional wealth estimates for Austria to achieve a … of health and long-term care insurance wealth is substantial, namely EUR 238,000 at the household level. It is comparable … Austria (0.73). The Gini coefficient for the new augmented wealth distribution (conventional wealth plus health and long-term …

This paper describes a novel method for the comparative estimation of long-term care needs, care arrangements and care … Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to quantify the demand for and supply of long-term care in hours … resulting estimates serve as parameters to introduce long-term care into the dynamic microsimulation model microWELT. The method …