Age, Costs of Acute and Long-term Care and Proximity to Death: Evidence for 1987-88 and 1994-94 in Btitish Columbia

K. McGrail, B. Green, M.L. Barer, R.G. Evans and C. Hertzman

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Abstract: Age is less important than proximity to death as a predictor of costs. However, the pattern of social and nursing care costs is different from that for acute medical care. In planning services it is important to take into account the relatively larger impact of aging on social and nursing care than on acute care.

Keywords: AGEING; POPULATION; HEALTH SERVICES (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 I11 I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 5 pages
Date: 2000
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