Long-term care protection for older persons: a review of coverage deficits in 46 countries
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| author | Xenia Scheil-Adlung |
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| contents | Long-term care protection for older persons: a review of coverage deficits in 46 countries Xenia Scheil-Adlung This paper: (i) examines long-term care (LTC) protection in 46 developing and developed countries covering 80 per cent of the world’s population; (ii) provides (data on LTC coverage for the population aged 65+; (iii) identifies access deficits for older persons due to the critical shortfall of formal LTC workers; (iv) presents the impacts of insufficient public funding, the reliance on unpaid informal LTC workers and high out-of-pocket payments (OOP); and (v) calls for recognizing LTC as a right, and mainstreaming LTC as a priority in national policy agendas given the benefits in terms of job creation and improved welfare of the population. ESS working paper, no. 50, ILO publication.encyclopediaEntry |
| format | Entrada de enciclopedia |
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| institution | Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT) |
| publishDate | 2015 |
| publisher | International Labour Organization |
| spellingShingle | Long-term care protection for older persons: a review of coverage deficits in 46 countries Xenia Scheil-Adlung Long-term care protection for older persons: a review of coverage deficits in 46 countries Xenia Scheil-Adlung This paper: (i) examines long-term care (LTC) protection in 46 developing and developed countries covering 80 per cent of the world’s population; (ii) provides (data on LTC coverage for the population aged 65+; (iii) identifies access deficits for older persons due to the critical shortfall of formal LTC workers; (iv) presents the impacts of insufficient public funding, the reliance on unpaid informal LTC workers and high out-of-pocket payments (OOP); and (v) calls for recognizing LTC as a right, and mainstreaming LTC as a priority in national policy agendas given the benefits in terms of job creation and improved welfare of the population. ESS working paper, no. 50, ILO publication.encyclopediaEntry |
| title | Long-term care protection for older persons: a review of coverage deficits in 46 countries |
| url | https://researchrepository.ilo.org/esploro/outputs/encyclopediaEntry/Long-term-care-protection-for-older-persons/995219316502676 |