Long-term care is a form of health and social services and family care that aims at caring for the functional and cognitive ability and maintaining them at a decent level for the elderly and the disabled until end of life. The focus here is on financial incentives and institutional structures...

Aim and Motivation: This paper investigates the income and socio-economic effects on institutional long-term care demand (LTC) in Finland from an economics perspective. If lessons are learned from major contributors of care needs and costs then preventative measures can be designed to answer...

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to determine the WHOQOL-Bref population norms and describe the psychometric properties of the Finnish WHOQOL–Bref in relation to construct validity, discriminatory power, and internal consistency in the general population. Method: Data from the Finnish HYPA...