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Long-term Care in Spain

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  • Joan Costa-Font
  • Sergi Jiménez
  • Cristina Vilaplana Prieto
  • Analía Viola

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This paper is part of an international effort to review the characteristics of Long Term Care in many developed countries. The provision of care for older age adults in Spain has greatly developed after the introduction of SAAD in 2007, which has expanded care universally under need criteria alone. As a consequence, LTC expenditure as % of GDP has increased from 0.5% (2003) to nearly 0.9% (2019) where private insurance for LTC plays a negligible role. As other long term care systems, the Spanish system still relies heavily on informal care. Replacing informal caregivers with personal home help services would imply a rise in care expenditure of 2.3%-3.8% of GDP. Caregiving allowances have benefitted about 50% of SAAD beneficiaries. Finally, the majority of caregivers in both the formal (83%) and informal (65%) sectors are women.

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  • Joan Costa-Font & Sergi Jiménez & Cristina Vilaplana Prieto & Analía Viola, 2022. "Long-term Care in Spain," Studies on the Spanish Economy eee2022-23, FEDEA.
    • Handle: RePEc:fda:fdaeee:eee2022-23
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    1. Joan Costa‐Font & Edward C. Norton & Luigi Siciliani & Joan Costa‐Font & Cristina Vilaplana‐Prieto, 2017. "Does the Expansion of Public Long‐Term Care Funding Affect Saving Behaviour?," Fiscal Studies, Institute for Fiscal Studies, vol. 38, pages 417-443, September.
    2. Joan Costa-Font & Francesco D’Amico & Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto, 2023. "Caring For Carers? The Effect of Public Subsidies on the Well-Being of Unpaid Carers," American Journal of Health Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 9(4), pages 487-522.
    3. Joan Costa-Font & Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto, 2023. "‘Investing’ in care for old age? An examination of long-term care expenditure dynamics and its spillovers," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 64(1), pages 1-30, January.
    4. Costa-Font, Joan & Jiménez-Martín, Sergi & Vilaplana-Prieto, Cristina, 2022. "Do Public Caregiving Subsidies and Supports affect the Provision of Care and Transfers?," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 84(C).
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