This paper: examines long-term care (LTC) protection in 46 developing and developed countries covering 80 per cent of the world’s population; provides (data on LTC coverage for the population aged 65+; identifies access deficits for older persons due to the critical shortfall of formal LTC workers; presents the impacts of insufficient public funding, the reliance on unpaid informal LTC workers and high out-of-pocket payments (OOP); and calls for recognizing LTC as a right, and mainstreaming LTC as a priority in national policy agendas given the benefits in terms of job creation and improved welfare of the population.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/long-term-care-protection-older-persons-review-coverage-deficits-46-countries
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/xenia-scheil-adlung
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/international-labour-office
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/aged
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health-care
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/global
