Assessing old-age long-term care using the concepts of healthy life expectancy and care duration: the new parameter "Long-Term Care-Free Life-Expectancy (LTCF)"

Rembrandt D. Scholz and Anne Schulz
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Rembrandt D. Scholz: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

No WP-2010-001, MPIDR Working Papers from Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

Abstract: Achieving old ages is also connected with prevalence of illness and long-term care. With the introduction of the statutory long-term care insurance in 1996 and the long-term care statistics in 1999 research data of about 2.3 million people receiving long-term care benefits is available. Average life expectancy can be qualitatively divided into lifetime spent in good health and lifetime spent in long-term care dependence (average care duration). In Germany women’s and men’s average care duration amount 3.6 years respectively 2.1 years.

Keywords: Germany; ageing; laboratories; life expectancy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13 pages
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2010-001

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