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How Can We Improve Long-Term Care Financing?

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Howard Gleckman
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The system for financing and delivering long-term care in the United States is deeply flawed. While families and government spend more than $200 billion annually for such services, many frail elderly and disabled fail to receive the care they need. This problem is expected to become more severe as the Baby Boom generation ages...

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Paper provided by Center for Retirement Research in its series Issues in Brief with number ib2008-8-8.

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Date of creation: Jun 2008
Date of revision: Jun 2008
Handle: RePEc:crr:issbrf:ib2008-8-8

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