Long Term Care Financing Lessons For Low And Middle Income Settings Brief 1 Drivers Of The Demand For Long Term Care

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
ISBN 13 : 9240086498
Total Pages : 10 pages
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Download or read book Long-term care financing: lessons for low- and middle-income settings. Brief 1. Drivers of the demand for long-term care written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief is part of a series about financing health and social long-term care: lessons for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The number of people aged 65 years and older will increase in LMICs, where most older people will be living by 2050. Many people in LMICs will experience the onset of age-related health problems before the age of 65 years. Long-term care (LTC) can include some acute care medical services delivered in health facilities, but it primarily refers to support provided outside of the health system by caregivers in institutions or at home to allow people to maintain their routine activities. Individuals’ unmet needs increase the demand for LTC. Without formal LTC services and systems, the costs of LTC shift to the family. Informal caregivers, primarily women, may need to reduce their working hours or leave the labour force prematurely, placing pressure on the economy and household resources. The availability of informal caregivers has declined along with decreases in fertility and family sizes, and increased opportunities for women in the formal workforce. In the absence of formal LTC services and systems, individuals seek care in the acute care medical system, which can increase health care costs while offering suboptimal care for older adults. People underestimate their need for LTC, even though many may require intensive support or institutional care that may exceed their income. Given the market failures of LTC insurance, public intervention is well-justified to meet this demand.

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Publisher : World Health Organization
ISBN 13 : 9240090622
Total Pages : 12 pages
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Download or read book Long-term care financing: lessons for low- and middle-income settings. Brief 4. Determining the long-term care services covered in the benefits package written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-03-13 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 : 924009332X
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Download or read book Long-term care financing written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 : 9240094741
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Download or read book Long-term care financing written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : World Health Organization
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ISBN 13 : 924009248X
Total Pages : 14 pages
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Download or read book Long-term care financing written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-04-29 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 : 9240090363
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Download or read book Long-term care financing: lessons for low- and middle-income settings. Brief 3. How countries finance long-term care written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-03-13 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 : 9240089764
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Download or read book Long-term care financing written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief is part of a series about financing health and social long-term care: lessons for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Countries take a universal or selective approach, or some mix of the two, in identifying the population that will be covered under LTC programmes. Decisions are based on the economic and social contexts, and LTC is designed with consideration of the existing infrastructure for delivering health and social care. Universal approaches are grounded in the principle of ensuring equal access to health and social care. Selective approaches focus on those in greatest need, primarily those who are low-income. While selective approaches are perceived to cost less, the total costs may be offset by the high cost of implementing means-testing to identify beneficiaries. The selective approach may also result in high levels of unmet needs among people who do not meet the low-income thresholds. Mixed universal and selective approaches enable universal coverage for some services or populations and means-tested eligibility for others; thus, older people may face high payments for some needed services. Many LMICs have initiated mixed approaches to LTC, using public and private resources while building the policies, systems and infrastructure for universal coverage of LTC.

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ISBN 13 : 9240038841
Total Pages : 68 pages
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Download or read book Framework for countries to achieve an integrated continuum of long-term care written by and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2021-11-24 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Framework for Countries to Achieve an Integrated Continuum of Long-Term Care identifies key aspects necessary to achieve an integrated continuum of long-term care service provision and to facilitate the integration of long-term services within existing health and social care systems. The framework will guide countries in assessing system-level components to implement sustainable and equitable long-term care actions. By applying this framework, countries can begin to develop and shape their long-term care systems as part of their universal health coverage programmes and promote investment in long-term care and the health workforce, including carers.

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Download or read book The Financing and Delivery of Long-term Care Services written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
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Download or read book Sharing the Burden written by Joshua M. Wiener and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The United states is engaged in a critically important and contentious debate on how to overhaul the health care system. The Clinton administration's call for major health care reform has brought national attention to solving the dual problems of uncontrolled cost increases and the lack of adequate health insurance. Although this debate focuses primarily on acute care, it is also about long-term care and about how to restructure the way that care is financed. Today the families of Americans suffering from chronic conditions that require long-term care either at home or in nursing homes often face financial catastrophe. With the ever-increasing elderly population the need to address long-term care financing is more crucial than ever." "Sharing the Burden examines a wide range of financing approaches to reforming long-term care and the impacts each would have over the next twenty-five years. It tackles the central issue in the long-term care debate - the relative roles of the public and private sectors. The authors urge that private insurance be encouraged and predict that it will grow. Nevertheless, private insurance will probably play a modest role in financing nursing home and at-home care. For this reason, careful attention must also be given to reforming public programs. They recommend a strategy that includes expanded social insurance covering more at-home care and limited nursing home care, liberalized eligibility requirements for medicaid so that complete impoverishment is not required before benefits are given, and an enhanced role for private insurance to provide asset protection to the upper-middle-income and wealthy elderly." "Using their original computer simulation model, the authors examine the costs of various public and private initiatives and who would pay for them. They conclude that the best strategy for reforming long-term care is a mix of public and private initiatives and, within the public sector, a combination of social insurance and medicaid changes." "This book underscores the urgent need to restructure the American health care system and provides essential information for everyone concerned about its future."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved