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Title: 'User pays' and other approaches to the funding of long-term care for older people in Australia
Related: Ageing and society, Vol. 20, Issue 1, p.5-32
DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X99007643
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 2000
Author/Creator: Fine, Michael
Author/Creator: Chalmers, Jenny
Description: It has been argued that without some system in which future generations of users are able to pay for their care the cost of services for an increasingly large group of older people will be borne by a declining base of economically active younger people. Is the answer a user pays approach to the financing of aged care, as promoted by recent changes to aged care financing? This paper reviews this concept and its recent history in Australia. On the basis of a brief review of alternative funding systems, it also considers the potential of public and private insurance schemes to increase funding by potential service users and underwrite the long-term viability of funding for aged care services.
Description: 28 page(s)
Subject Keyword: aged care
Subject Keyword: Australia
Subject Keyword: demographic trends
Subject Keyword: funding
Subject Keyword: insurance
Subject Keyword: long-term care
Subject Keyword: policy
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Sociology

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/44054
Identifier: ISSN:1469-1779
Identifier: mq-rm-2000011400
Language: eng
Rights: Copyright 2000 Cambridge University Press. Article originally published in Ageing and Society, Volume 20, Issue 1, pp. 5-32. The original article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X99007643.
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