Are Personal Budgets a Financially Sound Reform Option for the German Long-Term Care Insurance?

In a long-run social experiment, personal budgets have been tested as an alternative home care program of the German long-term care insurance (LTCI). By granting the monetary value of inkind services in cash, personal budgets are considered to enable customized home care arrangements, thereby avoidi...

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Volume:	230
Main Author:	Melanie Arntz Stephan L. Thomsen
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Place of publication:	STUTTGART LUCIUS & LUCIUS 01.08.2010 Lucius & Lucius LUCIUS LUCIUS VERLAG MBH Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Department of Statistics and Economics
published in:	Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik Vol. 230; no. 4; pp. 378 - 402
ORCID:	0000-0002-9677-9199
Data of publication:	20100801
ISSN:	0021-4027 2366-049X
EISSN:	2366-049X
Discipline:	Economics
Series:	Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik)
Subjects:	Caregivers Nursing homes Control groups Budget reform Federal budgets Institutional care Cash Home care services Financial budgets Cost efficiency long-term care insurance spending Long-term care consumer-directed home care Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Mathematical Methods In Social Sciences Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods Long-term care; long-term care insurance; consumer-directed home care; spending FUTURE COMMUNITY SERVICES HOME
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