期刊名称:International Journal of Health Policy and Management
电子版ISSN:2322-5939
出版年度:2017
卷号:6
期号:8
页码:467-471
DOI:10.15171/ijhpm.2017.22
语种:English
出版社:Kerman University of Medical Sciences
其他摘要:The ageing of European population has been rapidly increasing during the last decades, and the problem of elderly care financing has become an issue for policy-makers. Long-term care (LTC) financing is considered a suitable proxy of the resources committed to elderly care by each government, but the preciseness of this approximation depends on the extent to which LTC is representative of elderly care within each country. Since there is a broad heterogeneity in LTC funding, organization and setting among European States, it is difficult to find a common parameter representing the public resources destined to the elderly care. We address these topics employing as a case study an Italian region, Lombardy, which in terms of population, dimension, healthcare organization and economic development could be compared to other European countries. The method we suggest, which consists basically in a careful estimate of all the public resources employed in the provision of services exclusively destined to the elderly, could be applied, with the due differences, to other European countries or regions.
其他关键词:Long-term Care (LTC) Services ; Elderly Care Financing ; European LTC Policies