Notes About Comparing Long-term Care Expenditures Across Countries: Comment on "Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan"

The comparison of long-term care (LTC) expenditures is a difficult task. National LTC systems differ widely in terms of eligibility criteria, level of benefits, institutional variety and regional heterogeneity. In this commentary I will first give some general remarks on cross country comparisons. T...

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Autor principal: Geyer, Johannes
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kerman University of Medical Sciences 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7054649/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32124592
http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2019.87
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description The comparison of long-term care (LTC) expenditures is a difficult task. National LTC systems differ widely in terms of eligibility criteria, level of benefits, institutional variety and regional heterogeneity. In this commentary I will first give some general remarks on cross country comparisons. Then I discuss the role of the informal sector which is the most important pillar of all LTC systems. I conclude with some background on current developments in Germany. Different from Japan Germany is extending its LTC insurance instead of containing costs.
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spelling pubmed-70546492020-03-09 Notes About Comparing Long-term Care Expenditures Across Countries: Comment on "Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan" Geyer, Johannes Int J Health Policy Manag Commentary The comparison of long-term care (LTC) expenditures is a difficult task. National LTC systems differ widely in terms of eligibility criteria, level of benefits, institutional variety and regional heterogeneity. In this commentary I will first give some general remarks on cross country comparisons. Then I discuss the role of the informal sector which is the most important pillar of all LTC systems. I conclude with some background on current developments in Germany. Different from Japan Germany is extending its LTC insurance instead of containing costs. Kerman University of Medical Sciences 2019-10-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7054649/ /pubmed/32124592 http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2019.87 Text en © 2020 The Author(s); Published by Kerman University of Medical Sciences This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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