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Long‐term care: Common issues and unknowns
Author(s) -
Swartz Katherine,
Miake Naoko,
Farag Nadine
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of policy analysis and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.898
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1520-6688
pISSN - 0276-8739
DOI - 10.1002/pam.20629
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , long term care , developed country , developing country , term (time) , population , public economics , dozen , survey of income and program participation , public policy , economic growth , business , economics , medicine , demographic economics , environmental health , philosophy , linguistics , physics , nursing , arithmetic , mathematics , quantum mechanics
Abstract All industrialized countries are grappling with a common problem—how to provide assistance of various kinds to their rapidly aging populations. The problem for countries searching for models of efficient and high‐quality long‐term care (LTC) policies is that fewer than a dozen countries have government‐organized, formal LTC policies. Relatively new surveys focused on the elderly populations of about 25 countries could become the basis for research on which LTC policy design choices have desired outcomes for individuals and society and might be replicable in other countries. As in earlier decades when U.S. researchers created the Current Population Survey (CPS) modules and the Survey of Income and Program Participation to answer policy questions, researchers and policy analysts are now at a point where a concerted effort is needed to generate questions that international comparative research on LTC could answer as well as the data needed to address the questions. © 2011 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.