Long‐term care

Common issues and unknowns

Bibliographic Data

ID11680558
AuthorsKATHERINE SWARTZ (0000-0003-0417-6241, corresponding author), Naoko Miake (Tokyo Medical and Dental University), Nadine Farag (Harvard University)
Year2011
Volume31
Issue1
Pages139-152
Publication date2011-10-24
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Policy Analysis and Management (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0276-8739 • E-ISSN: 1520-6688
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/pam.20629
PMID22180893
OpenAlexW2145387043
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited30

All industrialized countries are grappling with a common problem—how to provide assistance of various kinds to their rapidly aging populations. The problem for countries searching for models of efficient and high-quality long-term care (LTC) policies is that fewer than a dozen countries have government-organized, formal LTC policies. Relatively new surveys focused on the elderly populations of about 25 countries could become the basis for research on which LTC policy design choices have desired outcomes for individuals and society and might be replicable in other countries. As in earlier decades when U.S. researchers created the Current Population Survey (CPS) modules and the Survey of Income and Program Participation to answer policy questions, researchers and policy analysts are now at a point where a concerted effort is needed to generate questions that international comparative research on LTC could answer as well as the data needed to address the questions

Business · Demographic economics · Developed country · Developing country · Dozen · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Government (linguistics · Long-term care · Population · Public economics · Public policy · Survey of Income and Program Participation · Term (time · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes · Global Health Care Issues · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine

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