Overview
- Discusses the financial consequences of ageing populations
- Chronicles Japan’s experience with the world’s highest ageing population
- Offers empirical and critical economical perspectives
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Aging (BRIEFSAGING)
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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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Trends and Factors in Japan's Long-Term Care Insurance System
Book Subtitle: Japan's 10-year Experience
Authors: Pedro Olivares-Tirado, Nanako Tamiya
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Aging
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7875-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7874-0Published: 09 December 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7875-7Published: 19 November 2013
Series ISSN: 2211-3231
Series E-ISSN: 2211-324X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 138
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: Aging, Geriatrics/Gerontology, Population Economics