Long-term care for older people.
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| Imprint: | Paris : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, c2005. |
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| Description: | 137 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5708177 |
Table of Contents:
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. An Overview of Long-term Care Programmes and Expenditures
- Introduction
- The nature of long-term care services
- A wide range of long-term care coverage by public programmes
- Differences in spending levels for long-term care services
- Notes
- Chapter 2. Towards a Continuum of Care: Bringing Services Together
- Introduction
- The continuum of care
- National measures to improve the continuum of care
- Shifting the balance towards home-based care
- Services to support carers
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Chapter 3. Consumer Direction and Choice in Long-term Care
- Introduction
- Arrangements to increase consumer-direction and choice when receiving long-term care at home
- Aspects of programme design
- Outcomes: what is the experience with choice of carer and payments for care?
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Chapter 4. Monitoring and Improving the Quality of Long-term Care
- Introduction
- What do we know about quality deficits in long-term care?
- Efforts to monitor and improve quality in long-term care
- The cost of improving housing standards and quality of accommodation
- Conclusions
- Chapter 5. Paying for Long-term Care: Current Reforms and Issues for the Future
- Introduction
- New forms of public programmes for long-term care: Austria, Germany, Japan and Luxembourg
- Reforms to long-term care within the tax envelope: Sweden, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom
- Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Annex A. Demographic Trends and Changes in Living Arrangements of Older Persons
- Introduction
- Demographic trends
- Disability in older age
- The role of informal care giving and trends in labour market participation
- Living arrangements of older persons
- Annex B. Profiles of Long-term Care Systems in 19 Countries
- Australia
- Austria
- Canada
- Germany
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Japan
- Korea
- Luxembourg
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Poland
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Notes
- List of boxes
- 0.1. Definitions and glossary of terms
- 1.1. Long-term care systems serve all age groups
- 1.2. What can we learn from future projections of spending on long-term care?
- 3.1. Consumer-directed care programmes in the United States
- 4.1. The role of the Internet in strengthening the role of the public and of consumers of services
- List of tables
- 1.1. Major public programmes covering long-term care in selected OECD countries, 2003
- 1.2. Public and private expenditure on long-term care as a percentage of GDP, 2000
- 2.1. Interventions on a continuum-of-care for stroke and dementia patients
- 2.2. Measures introduced in OECD countries to improve the continuum of care
- 2.3. Recipients of institutional and home-care services aged 65 and over
- 2.4. Decreasing rates of nursing home use in the United States, 1985 to 1999
- 2.5. Recent initiatives to support more disabled older people at home
- 3.1. Personal budgets, consumer-directed care and payments for informal care
- 4.1. Dimensions and aspects of quality in long-term care
- 4.2. Evidence on quality deficits in nursing home care
- 4.3. Policy concerns about the quality of nursing home care
- 4.4. Policy concerns about the quality of home-care services
- 4.5. Privacy in nursing homes
- 5.1. Public long-term care benefits in five countries
- A.1. Share of older persons in the population, 1960 to 2040
- A.2. Share of very old persons (80+) among the elderly, 1960 to 2040
- A.3. Life expectancy at age 65 and 80, 1960 to 2000
- A.4. Old age-dependency ratio, 1960 to 2040
- A.5. Disability-free life expectancy at age 65, selected countries
- A.6. Relationship between care recipient and informal care giver
- A.7. Age distribution of care givers
- List of figures
- 1.1. Public and private expenditure on long-term care as a percentage of GDP, 2000
- 1.2. The correlation between total long-term care spending and the population share of the very elderly, 2000
- 1.3. Public expenditure on long-term care as a percentage of GDP, 2000
- 1.4. Share of spending on institutional care in total public long-term care expenditure, 2000
- 1.5. The role of private spending on care in institutions
- 1.6. Trends in public spending on long-term care, 1990-2002
- A.1. Prevalence of disability by age and gender
- A.2. Female labour force participation by age groups, 1980 and 2002
- A.3. Trends of older persons living alone, 1990 to 2000
