- Title
- Long-term care in international perspective.
- First Author
- Doty, Pamela
- Date of Pub
- 1988 Supp.
- Pages
- 145-155
- Volume
- Supp.
- Issue
- N/A
- Other Authors
- N/A
- Abstract
- The findings of a study of long-term care policies in 18 countries are reported in this article. Initial data were collected by a questionnaire survey under the auspices of the International Social Security Association. These data were supplemented by published documents and government statistics obtained while researching long-term care for the International Social Security Association and, subsequently, for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The principal focus is a cross-national comparison of institutionalization rates for the elderly. Differences in use rates for medically oriented facilities are less than those for nonmedical residential long-term care facilities. Only a small amount of variation is related to demographic differences, such as older or more female elderly populations in those countries with higher institutionalization rates. Included also is a description of the modes of financing long-term care.
- Abstract Continued
- N/A
- MeSH
- Health Policy : Long-Term Care : Aged : Argentina : Australia : Canada : Cross-Cultural Comparison : Europe : Human : Institutionalization/statistics & numerical data : Israel : Japan : New Zealand : Questionnaires : Turkey : United States
- NTIS Number
- PB89-188494
