Comas-Herrera, Adelina 
ORCID: 0000-0002-9860-9062 and Guillén, Montserrat
(2012)
How much risk is mitigated by long-term care protection schemes? A methodological note and a case study of the public system in Spain.
LSE Health and Social Care
(01 Nov 2012).
Website.
Abstract
One of the main objectives of long-term care (LTC) projection schemes, public and private, is to mitigate the risk to individuals of being exposed to “catastrophic” costs of care, which can occur when a person needs care for a very long period of time. A US-based study suggested that the average value of lifetime long-term care expenditures for people turning 65 in 2005 was approximately $47,000, with 28% of individuals facing costs in excess of $100,000 (Kemper et al. 2005).
| Item Type: | Online resource (Website) |
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| Official URL: | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/healthandsocialcare/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2012 The Author(s) |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HG Finance J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
| Date Deposited: | 18 May 2017 15:35 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Sep 2025 07:36 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/77702 |
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