Trends and Factors in Japan's Long-Term Care Insurance System: Japan's 10-Year Experience Paperback - 2013 - 1st Edition
by Pedro Olivares-Tirado; Nanako Tamiya
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Ageing population poses a set of complex policy and dilemmas for social security systems, intensifying the concerns about rising expenditures in health care and long-term care for elderly. In this context, ageing societies has many valuable lessons to learn by studying Japan's experience dealing with its hyper-aged society and particularly from its strategies to ensure the financial sustainability of the Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) system.
Based on an exhaustive literature review, and the results from six original researches on long-term care expenditures in Japan (LTCE) conducted during a doctoral program, the book provides a comprehensive view in analyzing trends and factors associated with increasing expenditures in the Long-Term Care Insurance system in Japan.
The book address relevant topics such as; the main socio-demographic changes experienced by the Japanese society during the last three decades, predictors of the LTCE, measuring efficiency in nursing homes, the impact of the LTCI 2005-reform to contain expenditures, cost-effectiveness of the in-home and community based services and institutional LTCE in the last year of life. The book end with a discussion on futures challenges and strategies oriented to contribute with the sustainability of LTCI system in Japan.
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- Title Trends and Factors in Japan's Long-Term Care Insurance System: Japan's 10-Year Experience
- Author Pedro Olivares-Tirado; Nanako Tamiya
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 138
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Springer
- Date 2013-12-09
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9789400778740 / 9400778740
- Weight 0.48 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.32 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 0.81 cm)
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Themes
- Generational Orientation: Elderly/Aged
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Asian - General
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.26
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