Projections show sharp increases in public spending on long-term care services across Europe. However, a purely cost based focus on long-term care services is economically misleading. Private and public expenditure on long-term care services directly and indirectly generate income in the form of...

Due to demographic change an efficient design of publicly funded long-term care services becomes increasingly important. A new law on public care funds (Pflegefondsgesetz) introduced in 2011 gives statutory priority to the extension of mobile home care over residential care. However, according...

Vor dem Hintergrund der Alterung der Bevölkerung, des Anstieges der Erwerbsquote und des Rückganges der Haushaltsgröße gewinnt die effiziente Ausgestaltung der Pflegesysteme immer mehr an Bedeutung. Mit Einführung des Pflegefondsgesetzes wurde der kontinuierliche Auf- und Ausbau dieser...

Projections show sharp increases in public spending on long-term care services across Europe. However, a purely cost based focus on long-term care services is economically misleading. Private and public expenditure on long-term care services directly and indirectly generate income in the form of...