Auch nach nahezu 30 Jahren Pflegeversicherung und Pflegereformen ist es nur in Teilbereichen gelungen, für pflegebedürftige Menschen ein qualitativ überzeugendes Versorgungsangebot aufzubauen, das von ihnen auch angenommen wird. Zu fragen ist, entsprechen die bestehenden Angebote überhaupt...

Background Informal care provided by family members, friends, or neighbors is a major pillar in the German longterm care system. As the number of care-dependent older adults grow, ensuring their future care still relies on the willingness of family members, friends, or neighbors to assume the...

"Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to develop a better and sustainable future for the world and the goals are part of an action plan to address poverty, hunger, health, gender equity and various pressing world issues. One of these goals looks at health and wellness. Ageing populations...

This paper compares the impact of long term care (LTC) risk on single and married households and studies the roles played by informal care (IC), consumption sharing within households, and Medicaid in insuring this risk. We develop a life-cycle model where individuals face survival and health...

Families provide substantial care to older adults with functional limitations. Policies that incentivize work have the potential to reduce this valuable care. This study uses the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and a simulated instrument approach to examine the consequences of increases in the...

Background: Nearly 19 million people across OECD countries are living with dementia, and millions of family caregivers are affected by the disease. The costs of informal care are estimated to represent 40-75% of the total dementia cost exceeding formal care time and medical costs. Objective: To...

The partially disregarded right of self-determination of those in need of care, the more frequent refusal of care by relatives and the complexity of professional care work and the above-average psychological and physical workload are currently leading to a discourse on the inclusion of...

The partially disregarded right of self-determination of those in need of care, the more frequent refusal of care by relatives and the complexity of professional care work and the above-average psychological and physical workload are currently leading to a discourse on the inclusion of...

Der demografische Wandel führt dazu, dass zukünftig mehr ältere und weniger junge Menschen in Thüringen leben werden. Dies hat grundlegende Auswirkungen auf den Arbeitsmarkt in der Pflege, denn mit der zunehmenden Zahl der Älteren steigt die Zahl der Pflegebedürftigen, für deren...

Die derzeitige Ausgestaltung der Pflegeversicherung ist in zweifacher Hinsicht defizitär: Sie geht mit hohen und in Zukunft weiter steigenden Eigenanteilen für Pflegebedürftige einher, und sie verletzt die Prinzipien einer solidarischen Sozialen Sicherung durch ihre Ausgestaltung als duales...

Wie die Ergebnisse der Befragung von Nutzern gängiger Gesundheitsportale nahelegen, kann die häufige Inanspruchnahme solcher Webseiten enorme Auswirkungen auf das Arzt-Patient-Verhältnis entfalten. Folgen können ein reflektierterer und kritischerer Umgang mit Ärzten sein, aber auch ein...

This paper analyzes the impact of a reduction in women's labor supply through retirement on their informal care provision. Using SOEP data from the years 2001- 2016 the analysis addresses fundamental endogeneity problems by applying a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. We exploit early...

Wie die Ergebnisse der Befragung von Nutzern gängiger Gesundheitsportale nahelegen, kann die häufige Inanspruchnahme solcher Webseiten enorme Auswirkungen auf das Arzt-Patient-Verhältnis entfalten. Folgen können ein reflektierterer und kritischerer Umgang mit Ärzten sein, aber auch ein...

Der demografische Wandel führt dazu, dass zukünftig mehr ältere und weniger junge Menschen in Thüringen leben werden. Dies hat grundlegende Auswirkungen auf den Arbeitsmarkt in der Pflege, denn mit der zunehmenden Zahl der Älteren steigt die Zahl der Pflegebedürftigen, für deren...

This paper analyzes the impact of a reduction in women's labor supply through retirement on their informal care provision. Using SOEP data from the years 2001- 2016 the analysis addresses fundamental endogeneity problems by applying a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. We exploit early...

"Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to develop a better and sustainable future for the world and the goals are part of an action plan to address poverty, hunger, health, gender equity and various pressing world issues. One of these goals looks at health and wellness. Ageing populations...

We study the design of public long-term care (LTC) insurance when the altruism of informal caregivers is uncertain. We consider non-linear policies where the LTC benefit depends on the level of informal care, which is assumed to be observable while children's altruism is not. The traditional...

We study the design of public long-term care (LTC) insurance when the altruism of informal caregivers is uncertain. We consider non-linear policies where the LTC benefit depends on the level of informal care, which is assumed to be observable while children's altruism is not. The traditional...

We study the design of public long-term care (LTC) insurance when the altruism of informal caregivers is uncertain. We consider non-linear policies where the LTC benefit depends on the level of informal care, which is assumed to be observable while children’s altruism is not. The traditional...

We study the design of public long-term care (LTC) insurance when the altruism of informal caregivers is uncertain. We consider non-linear policies where the LTC benefit depends on the level of informal care, which is assumed to be observable while children's altruism is not. The traditional...