Gaps in social protection for health care and long‐term care in E urope
Are the elderly faced with financial ruin
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9971097 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Xenia Scheil‐Adlung (International Labour Office Geneva Switzerland, corresponding author), Jacopo Bonan (0000-0003-3564-3834, University of Milan‐Bicocca Italy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-48 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Social Security Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-871X • E-ISSN: 1468-246X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/issr.12001 |
| OpenAlex | W1911120880 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 9 |
While public expenditure on health care and long‐term care ( LTC ) has been monitored for many years in E uropean countries, far less attention has been paid to the financial consequences for older people of private out‐of‐pocket ( OOP ) expenditure necessary to access such care. Employing representative cross‐sectional data on the elderly populations of 11 E uropean countries in 2004 from the S urvey of H ealth, Ageing and Retirement in E urope ( SHARE ), we find that OOP payments for health care and LTC are very common among the elderly across E uropean countries and such expenditures impact significantly on disposable income: up to 95 per cent of the elderly make OOP payments for health care and 5 per cent for LTC , resulting in income reductions of between 5 and 10 per cent, respectively. Failure to prevent financial ruin, as a consequence of excessive OOP payments, is evident in 0.7 per cent of elderly households utilizing health care and 0.5 per cent of elderly households utilizing LTC . Those particularly concerned are the poor, women and the very old
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