Ensuring long-term care (LTC) is one of the most urgent problems in health care today. Demographic trends are expected to lead to a higher proportion of old and very old people in the global population. As a result, an increased proportion of global income will be devoted to LTC services. With this in mind, aims to address the following important objectives: With its mix of empirical, theoretical and policy-related contributions, will be of interest not only to health economists, but also to social scientists, health insurers, and public policy advocates. weiterlesen