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International long-term care reform: A demographic, economic, and policy overview

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Advanced industrial countries around the world are making or contemplating major reforms of their systems for financing and organizing long-term care for the elderly. The paper describes major reform efforts including: the pursuit of cost efficiencies from further differentiation of the acute and long-term care delivery systems, promotion of home and community-based care alternatives to traditional institutions, and ‘systems integration’ involving consolidation of responsibility for long-term care at one level of government. The paper concludes by discussing the special relevance to the longterm care reform debate in the U.S. of recent British and German decisions to, respectively, decentralize versus centralize responsibility for long-term care.

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  1. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Room 424E Humphrey Building 200 Independence Avenue SW, 20201, Washington, D.C., USA

    Pamela Doty (Senior Analyst)

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This paper should not be construed in any way as reflecting or representing official views of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Doty, P. International long-term care reform: A demographic, economic, and policy overview. J Cross-Cultural Gerontol 8, 447–461 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00972571

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