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elderly health outcomes remains an open issue. In this study, we analyze the impact of telecare on the mortality rate of … show that telecare services significantly reduced the mortality rate of the elderly aged 65 and over by 1.7 individuals per … 1,000 inhabitants. This effect was sizeable, since it was a 4% decrease in the elderly mortality rate relatively to the …
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) with established methods. Data were obtained from the mortality registry as well as national health, aging, labor force …Thailand's aging population has impacted its labor force. This study examines additional health capacity to work (AHCW ….7% increase) for males and 1.9 years (17.8%) for females, based on the 2005 employment- mortality relationship. With the Cutler …
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Questions are often raised about who is entitled to death or survivor benefits from a federally regulated employee benefit plan, whether for federal employees, or for private employees by a plan governed by ERISA. The following principles generally resolve these questions: • Federal law does...
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The dramatic rise in the US social security and public health expenditure is only partially explained by the … demographic trend, and may be due to the political complementarity between these two programs. We suggest that public health care … increases the political constituency in favor of social security, and viceversa. Specifically, public health decreases the …
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perspective and considers household retirement incomes in the light of analysing old-age poverty and designing (minimum) pension … policies. Using household survey and administrative data, the paper examines actual needs of pensioner households in relation … if old-age poverty analysis integrates other household incomes. The German government intends to implement the Grundrente …
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Aging populations in developing countries have spurred the introduction of public pension programs to preserve the standard of living for the elderly. The often-overlooked mechanism of intergenerational transfers, however, can dampen these intended policy effects, as adult children who make...
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