Austria’s Long-Term Care System: Challenges and Policy Responses

Challenges in long-term care policy.

Methods for Long - Term Environmental Policy Challenges

How do we study long-term policy challenges where the outcomes are difacult to anticipate far into the future? After a brief overview of the broad classes of methods used to inform long-term policy decisions, this article will review in more depth three analytic methods—statistical methods, robust decisionmaking, and adaptive agent-based models—that provide innovative examples. The article cons...

Long-term care and federal policy.

A major deficiency of national health care policy is the lack of a structured and comprehensive system of long-term care. A review of existing federal programs reveals that substantial resources are being expended to care for the elderly. Program structures and requirements, however, are frequently skewed toward institutional care to the exclusion of more appropriate home- and community-based s...

The Evolution of Long-term Care Programs; Comment on “Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan”

The need for long-term care (LTC) represents a “new social risk,” one that overlaps with and complements systems of care that pre-date such programs, complicating LTC program design. This commentary expands on Ikegami’s discussion of how these structural factors must be accommodated, as well as historical and cultural factors that influence public expectations of such a...

Financing Long-term Care: The Role of Culture and Social Norms; Comment on “Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan”

Based on the experiences of Japan and Germany, Ikegami argues that middle-income countries should introduce public long-term care insurance (LTCi) at an early stage, before benefits have expanded as a result of ad hoc policy decisions to win popular support. The experience of the Netherlands, however, shows that an early introduction of public LTCi may not prevent, but ...