European study of long-term care expenditure: investigating the sensitivity of projections of future long-term care expenditure in Germany, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom to changes in assumptions about demography, dependency, informal care, formal care and unit costs

摘要: This European study of long-term care expenditure investigates the key factors that are likely to affect future on services in Germany, Spain, Italy and United Kingdom. The approach involves investigating how sensitive projections assumptions made about trends different factors, using comparable projection models. main investigated this include demography changes, functional dependency (defined as ability perform activities daily living), availability informal care, structure formal patterns provision, unit costs services.