Freeman, Emily 
ORCID: 0000-0001-9396-1350, Knapp, Martin ORCID: 0000-0003-1427-0215, Jadoolal, Shari and Somani, Ami
(2023)
Long-term care organization and financing.
In: Mitchell, Richard, Bradshaw, Ralph and McManus, Linda, (eds.)
Reference Module in Biomedical Sciences.
Elsevier.
ISBN 9780128012383
Abstract
Long-term care is support directed to individuals who have reduced cognitive, physical or sensory capacity for self-care within the environments they inhabit, with the aims of improving personal functioning, independence in daily living tasks and quality of life. Most long-term care today is provided or facilitated by recipients’ family members, although state and private formal provision is becoming more prominent in many parts of the world. Financing of long-term care relies heavily on collective prepayment and out-of-pocket arrangements made by care recipients and their families. The indirect costs of providing ‘informal,’ unpaid care are challenging to calculate but likely to be significant, especially when care needs are more advanced. Self-directed support systems have been introduced in some countries. The future affordability of long-term care is a major challenge across the world.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Official URL: | https://www.sciencedirect.com/referencework/978012... |
| Additional Information: | © 2023 Elsevier Inc |
| Divisions: | Personal Social Services Research Unit Health Policy |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jan 2024 09:33 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2024 09:33 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/121400 |
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