Zdrojový dokument:Scientific papers of the University of Pardubice. Series D, Faculty of Economics and Administration. 41/2017
ISSN:ISSN 1211-555X (Print)
Abstrakt:
With respect to demographic changes and population ageing, all OECD
countries will be tackling issues of long-term care (LTC) associated with the need for
professional services, collaboration between the formal and informal long-term care
systems, and the adjustment of the mix of public and private resources playing part in
long-term care financing. The paper aims to evaluate the potential of long-term care
in selected OECD countries in connection with population ageing. The majority of the
selected countries have seen a rise in the number of long-term care recipients along
with total expenditures on long-term care. Nevertheless, these countries differ
fundamentally in total expenditures allocated on long-term care per recipient. Results
of evaluation using selected indicators of long-term care, by use of two-step cluster
analysis, in years 2008 and 2013 also showed a variety of approaches in the provision
of long-term care among the analysed countries (mainly in terms of LTC recipients
aged 65+ as percentage of total LTC recipients) and in financing of long-term care
(mainly in terms of LTC expenditures on institutions as percentage of total LTC
expenditures).