Long-term care

European care strategy - One year after the adoption

Submitted by pmassetti on Tue, 09/12/2023 - 16:14

europa.eu (07.09.2023) One year ago the European Commission presented the European Care Strategy. One year after, several actions were launched to ensure high-quality affordable and accessible care services and to improve the situation of care providers. This was done in close cooperation with Member States, social partners, and stakeholders.

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From local to national: Delivering and financing effective long-term care

Submitted by pmassetti on Thu, 07/06/2023 - 15:52

OECD (Jul 2023) This study provides an in-depth examination of the fiscal and governance decentralisation of long-term care (LTC) across OECD countries, offering projections of future fiscal burdens of LTC spending across levels of government. With rapid population ageing and a decrease in the supply of informal care, LTC spending has increased significantly. The paper introduces a novel methodology to estimate LTC expenditures across different government levels, including central and subnational governments.

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Beyond Applause? Improving Working Conditions in Long-Term Care

Submitted by pmassetti on Tue, 06/27/2023 - 16:01

oecd.org (June 2023) This report presents an in-depth cross-country analysis of how long-term care workers fare along the different dimensions of job quality. In the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, the applause for care workers was a clear expression of the strong recognition of their hard work and exposure to risks in their job. However, as the applause faded after the peak of the crisis, questions have re-emerged about how to improve the working conditions of long-term care workers in a sustainable way.

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Long-term Care in the Agenda: The Case of Chile

Submitted by pmassetti on Tue, 02/21/2023 - 11:15

Health Systems & Reform Volume 9, 2023 - Issue 1 - The Chilean presidential elections of 2021 included an unprecedented topic in the country’s political debate: long-term care (LTC). Although some public policies and programs have been in place for at least 20 years, during this 2021 presidential election LTC was mentioned for the first time in a political campaign.

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chile
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Medical care

Long-term care in the context of population ageing: a rights-based approach to universal coverage

Submitted by pmassetti on Thu, 11/03/2022 - 16:23

ILO Working paper 82. (Nov 2022)   With the acceleration of population ageing, the achieving of healthy ageing is becoming a global imperative and social protection policies and social security systems have an important role to play in this endeavour.

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Long-term care social protection models in the EU

Submitted by pmassetti on Tue, 09/06/2022 - 16:55

europa.eu (05.09.2022) The report examines long-term care systems for people aged 65 or above in the 27 EU Member States. It reveals that long-term care challenges have become increasingly salient in recent decades in EU Member States’ policy and political agendas. At the same time, in many countries long-term care policies and systems are still less developed than other social protection branches.

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european union
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The Road to Better Long-Term Care in Asia and the Pacific: Building Systems of Care and Support for Older Persons

Submitted by pmassetti on Thu, 05/26/2022 - 16:28

Asian Development Bank (May 2022) This report shares insights on capacity building for long-term care in six countries at different stages of population aging: Indonesia, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tonga, and Viet Nam. It explores these countries’ long-term care systems and their particular circumstances and challenges. It also examines what they have in common and highlights good practices that may be helpful to other countries facing similar issues.

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Asia
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Old-age pensions
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Asian Development Review: demographic change and human capital

Submitted by pmassetti on Fri, 04/01/2022 - 16:27

Asian Development Review: Volume 39, Number 1 | Asian Development Bank  (march 2022) This issue focuses on demographic change and human capital. It explores types of insurance for older people and considers economic security, education, and health. Among other topics covered are fuel subsidies and insulin prices.

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Asia
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Country Diagnostic Study on Long-Term Care in Indonesia | Asian Development Bank

Submitted by pmassetti on Mon, 11/22/2021 - 16:03

This publication presents a study on the availability and provision of long-term care (LTC) in Indonesia. It discusses findings from the analysis and offers recommendations for the development of LTC systems in the country.

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indonesia
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COVID-19 in long-term care: Impact, policy responses and challenges

Submitted by pmassetti on Fri, 10/22/2021 - 16:11

OECD (21.10.2021) The COVID-19 crisis has hit the long-term care (LTC) sector particularly hard, with large numbers of people dependent on care and particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 have fallen ill, and a disproportionate rate of LTC workers both exposed to, and infected by, COVID-19. The analysis presented in this report describes the effects of COVID-19 on LTC in OECD countries, mainly showing infection rates and mortality of LTC recipients.

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