Knapp, Martin and Somani, Ami (2008) Long-term care, organisation and financing. In: Heggenhougen, Kris and Quah, Stella, (eds.) International Encyclopaedia of Public Health. Elsevier, New York, USA, pp. 133-141. ISBN 9780122272250
Abstract
Long-term care is provided for individuals – particularly older people – who have lost self-care capacity because of chronic illness or disability, to improve personal functioning and quality of life. Most long-term care today is provided by unpaid family caregivers, but state-provided and other services are growing in importance. There is increasing emphasis on providing care in community settings in preference to nursing homes or hospital. Financing of long-term care relies heavily on collective prepayment and out-of-pocket arrangements, with funding shifting increasingly onto service users and families. Self-directed support systems are being 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: | http://www.elsevier.com |
| Additional Information: | © 2008 Elsevier |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
| Sets: | Departments > Social Policy Research centres and groups > Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Mar 2009 10:09 |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/23070/ |
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