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Does informal care reduce public care expenditure on elderly care? Estimates based on Finland’s Age Study

BACKGROUND: To formulate sustainable long-term care policies, it is critical first to understand the relationship between informal care and formal care expenditure. The aim of this paper is to examine to what extent informal care reduces public expenditure on elderly care. METHODS: Data from a geria...

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Autores principales: Kehusmaa, Sari, Autti-Rämö, Ilona, Helenius, Hans, Rissanen, Pekka
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3765233/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23947622
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-13-317