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"Financing Long-Term Care: Options for Policy" [PDF]
The nation is ill-prepared to finance the quantum jump in long-term care spending that is on its way as the baby boom ages. By default rather than by design, Medicaid has become the main source of funds for long-term care.
Walter M. Cadette
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On the Consumption Insurance Effects of Long-term Care Insurance in Japan: Evidence from Micro-level Household Data [PDF]
Using micro-level household data in the 2001 Comprehensive Survey of the Living Conditions of the People on Health and Welfare compiled by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, this paper examines how having a household member in need of ...
Makoto Saito +2 more
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Caring for America’s aging population: a profile of the direct-care workforce [PDF]
, 2007 Direct-care workers constitute a low-wage, high-turnover workforce with low levels of health insurance; taking these characteristics into account guides the challenge of how to deal with the growing demand for long-term care by an aging U.S ...
Baughman, Reagan A., Smith, Kristin E
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An All‐Optical Driven Bio‐Photovoltaic Interface for Active Control of Live Cells
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Bio‐photovoltaic Interface (BIO‐PV‐I) for live cell manipulation is presented. BIO‐PV‐I can be activated non‐invasively and remotely to control the spatial motility, adhesion, and morphology of cells adhering to it. BIO‐PV‐I uses a patterned light‐induced electric potential in iron‐doped lithium niobate crystals whose light‐driven and reversible nature,
Lisa Miccio +8 more
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Long-term Care Insurance Facilities and Interregional Migration of the Elderly in Japan [PDF]
Using municipality-level data of Japan, this paper empirically examines how the capacity of long-term care insurance facilities impacts interregional migration of the elderly. We construct net-migration data of the elderly population in each municipality
Akihiro Kawase, Katsuyoshi Nakazawa
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A Soft Robotic Device for Targeted Massage Therapy of Residual Limbs
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Residual limb edema after amputation can hinder recovery and delay prosthetic fitting. This study presents a soft‐robotic wearable device that delivers sequential compression through pneumatic McKibben actuators. By replicating the principles of manual lymphatic drainage, the device generates controlled mechanotherapeutic pressure patterns, providing a
Maria Grazia Polizzotto +5 more
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Huli yanjiu, 2022 ObjectiveTo investigate the elderly's willingness to choose long⁃term care insurance care mode in Xuzhou city and analyze the influencing factors，so as to provide opinions and suggestions for improving long-term care insurance care mode for the elderly ...
GAO Zefang +6 more
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Social Care Insurance: A Review of Psychological Influences on Uptake
Frontiers in Public Health, 2020 There is not currently a developed market for long-term social care insurance in England. Policymakers are interested in what behavioral influences should be considered in the design of insurance products for long-term social care to increase uptake ...
Ivo Vlaev +2 more
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Willigness to Pay for Long-Term Care Coverage: the Role of Private Information and Self-Insurance [PDF]
Both public and private insurance for long-term care is undeveloped in some European countries such as in Spain and empirical evidence is still limited.
Joan Costa Font, Juan Rovira Forns
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Medicaid Eligibility Issues for Long-Term Care Insurance Partnership Programs [PDF]
, 2008 Discusses key eligibility questions for the Long-Term Care Partnership model, in which states guarantee that if a partnership policy does not fully cover the cost of care, the consumer will qualify for Medicaid under special eligibility ...
Mark R. Meiners
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