The role of care home fees in the public costs and distributional effects of potential reforms to care home funding for older people in England

Health Economics, Policy and Law

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 47-73

  Hancock, Ruth ^a   Malley, Juliette ^b   Wittenberg, Raphael ^b   Morciano, Marcello ^a   Pickard, Linda ^b   King, Derek ^b   Comas Herrera, Adelina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST OF LIVING; ELDERLY CARE; FEE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FUNDING; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INCOME; LONG TERM CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL CARE; SIMULATION; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; ENGLAND; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MEDICAL ASSISTANCE; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; NURSING HOMES;

EID: 84872950403     PISSN: 17441331     EISSN: 1744134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1744133112000035     Document Type: Article

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