Long-term care: growing sector, multifaceted systems -- Sizing up the challenge ahead: future demographic trends and long-term care costs -- The impact of caring on family carers -- Policies to support family carers -- Long-term care workers: needed but often undervalued -- How to prepare for the future long-term care workforce? -- Public long-term care financing arrangements in OECD countries -- Private long-term care insurance: a niche or a "big tent" -- Where to? Providing fair protection against long-term care costs and financial sustainability -- Can we get better value for money in long-term care?.
Summary:
"This book examines the challenges countries are facing with regard to providing and paying for long-term care. With populations ageing and the need for long-term care growing rapidly, this book looks at such issues as: future demographic trends, policies to support family carers, long-term care workers, financing arrangements, long-term care insurance, and getting better value for money in long-term care."--Publisher description.
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