| Description |
1 online resource (138 pages) |
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SpringerBriefs in aging |
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SpringerBriefs in aging.
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| Contents |
Chapter 1: The aging population in Japan -- Chapter 2:Development of the long-term care insurance system in Japan -- Chapter 3: Long-term care expenditures in Japan -- Chapter 4: Effect on the new preventive policy on long-term care expenditures in Japan -- Chapter 5: Measuring efficiency in special nursing home: an application of data envelopment analysis (DEA) -- Chapter 6: Institutional long-term care expenditures and proximity to death in Japan -- Chapter 7: Future challenges towards establishment of a sustainable long-term care insurance system in Japan -- References |
| Summary |
Ageing population poses a set of complex policy and dilemmas for social security systems, intensifying the concerns about rising expenditures in health care and long-term care for elderly. In this context, ageing societies has many valuable lessons to learn by studying Japan's experience dealing with its hyper-aged society and particularly from its strategies to ensure the financial sustainability of the Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) system. Based on an exhaustive literature review, and the results from six original researches on long-term care expenditures in Japan (LTCE) conducted during a doctoral program, the book provides a comprehensive view in analyzing trends and factors associated with increasing expenditures in the Long-Term Care Insurance system in Japan. The book address relevant topics such as; the main socio-demographic changes experienced by the Japanese society during the last three decades, predictors of the LTCE, measuring efficiency in nursing homes, the impact of the LTCI 2005-reform to contain expenditures, cost-effectiveness of the in-home and community based services and institutional LTCE in the last year of life. The book end with a discussion on futures challenges and strategies oriented to contribute with the sustainability of LTCI system in Japan |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Old age pensions -- Japan
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Insurance -- Risk Assessment & Management.
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Droit.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Old age pensions
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Japan
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tamiya, Nanako, 1960- author.
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| ISBN |
9789400778757 |
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9400778759 |
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9400778740 |
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9789400778740 |
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