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Financing LTC
28 Feb 2025
UPCOMING CPEC WEBINAR: Measuring What Matters – the Complexities of Cost-Effectiveness in Policy and Research
REGISTER NOW: https://lse.zoom.us/meeting/register/D-6nZmV2T2OxLhUOwaHwNQ#/registration Cost-effectiveness evaluations are essential for shaping policy and funding decisions, highlighting interventions that offer the best value for money. In practice, these evaluations are often anything but straightforward. How can researchers account for complex, real-world variables? What happens when the benefits of an intervention are difficult to quantify? And how can policymakers […]
20 Jun 2024
GOLTC blog post: Long-Term Care Financing lessons for Low- and Middle-Income countries
We are delighted to share a new GOLTC blog post by the World Health Organization’s Centre for Health Development introducing their new series of research briefs on Financing Long-Term Care: Lessons for Low- and Middle-Income countries, which summarise existing international evidence on Long-Term Care Financing and then consider the potential application of the findings to […]
30 Oct 2023
Recommended reading: Effects of a financial incentive scheme for dementia care on medical and long-term care expenditures. A propensity score–matched analysis using data from Japan
Javiera Cartagena-Farias Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science People with dementia admitted to hospital are more likely to experience negative outcomes compared to patients not living with this condition – further functional decline, longer lengths of stay (LoS), higher readmission rates, and higher mortality rates. Thus, in April […]