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Trends and factors in Japan's long-term care insurance system [electronic resource] : Japan's 10-year experience / Pedro Olivares-Tirado, Nanako Tamiya.

Olivares-Tirado, Pedro, author.; Tamiya, Nanako, 1960-, author.
2014
HD7105.35.J3 .O458
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Title
Trends and factors in Japan's long-term care insurance system [electronic resource] : Japan's 10-year experience / Pedro Olivares-Tirado, Nanako Tamiya.
Author
Olivares-Tirado, Pedro, author.
ISBN
9789400778757 electronic book
9400778759 electronic book
9789400778740
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7875-7
Published
Dordrecht : Springer, 2014.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (138 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-94-007-7875-7 doi
Call Number
HD7105.35.J3 .O458
Dewey Decimal Classification
368.430952
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.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Tamiya, Nanako, 1960-, author.
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SpringerBriefs in aging.
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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
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