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The Health of Older Persons in OECD Countries: Is it Improving Fast Enough to Compensate for Population Ageing?

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  • Stephane Jacobzone
  • E. Cambois
  • E. Chaplain
  • J. M. Robine

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This study extends research on the impact of age-specific disability trends internationally, with a specific emphasis on long-term care needs. It focuses on changing patterns of disability in populations over 65 for a set of OECD countries for which cross-sectional evidence is available for at least two points in time five years or more apart (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States). It analyses the policy implications of trends in health outcomes among older populations, both in terms of financing and with respect to the balance of care between home and institutions.Information related to severe disability, as measured by the ability to carry out activities of daily living, was obtained for the population aged 65 and over, and cross-classified into four age groups and by gender. Two projections were made: one assumes stable rates of disability, and the other reflects the rate of change based on ...

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  • Stephane Jacobzone & E. Cambois & E. Chaplain & J. M. Robine, 1999. "The Health of Older Persons in OECD Countries: Is it Improving Fast Enough to Compensate for Population Ageing?," OECD Labour Market and Social Policy Occasional Papers 37, OECD Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:elsaaa:37-en
    DOI: 10.1787/066187831020
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    1. Zeynep Zümer Batur & Jeroen K Vermunt & Dimitri Mortelmans & Jorik Vergauwen, 2025. "The temporal variations in the distribution of filial support from adult children to their aging parents across Europe and Israel," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 20(10), pages 1-15, October.
    2. Katharina Herlofson & Gunhild Hagestad, 2011. "Challenges in moving from macro to micro: Population and family structures in ageing societies," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 25(10), pages 337-370.
    3. Ulrike Famira-Mühlberger & Käthe Knittler & Alois Guger, 2008. "Mittel- und langfristige Finanzierung der Pflegevorsorge," WIFO Studies, WIFO, number 33621, January.
    4. Maria Gabriella Melchiorre & Carlos Chiatti & Giovanni Lamura & Francisco Torres-Gonzales & Mindaugas Stankunas & Jutta Lindert & Elisabeth Ioannidi-Kapolou & Henrique Barros & Gloria Macassa & Joaqui, 2013. "Social Support, Socio-Economic Status, Health and Abuse among Older People in Seven European Countries," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(1), pages 1-10, January.
    5. Isabel Correia Dias & Priscila Ferreira & Lígia Costa Pinto & Marieta Valente & Paula Veiga, 2017. "Growing old, unhealthy and unequal: an exploratory study on the health of Portuguese individuals aged 50+," NIMA Working Papers 67, Núcleo de Investigação em Microeconomia Aplicada (NIMA), Universidade do Minho, revised Jun 2018.
    6. Michel Grignon, 2005. "Aging, Health and Aggregate Medical Care Spending in France," Department of Economics Working Papers 2005-05, McMaster University.

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